Re: How to start keychain?
After much reading, to try to get a cron job being able to run with
ssh, I
found that the best solution for me appears to be to run keychain, with
--clear. I found the IBM tutorials, which helped a lot, until it came to the
bit about setting up the automatic loading of keychain. That's when you
realise how out of date the tutorials are. Parts 1 and 2 were written in
2001 and part 3 in 2002. Much has changed since then.
Trying to follow the instructions but adapting to what happens now, I put the
following into ~/.bash_profile
/usr/bin/keychain --clear ~/.ssh/id_dsa
source ~/.bashrc
Into ~/.bashrc I put
eval `ssh-agent` #should that have been changed to 'eval
keychain'?
and at the start of the cron job I put
source ~/.keychain/david.lydgate.lan-sh
Then I logged out, and back in. Keychain did not start. I ran 'eval
keychain' and the cron job has completed once correctly.
Is it just the eval statement that is wrong, or do I need to change other
things?
Anne, this may be a bit late in the day, but have you looked
at the docs on the rsync homepage?
http://www.samba.org/rsync/documentation.html
There's an entry there:
A nice tutorial on setting up ssh to avoid password prompts also covers
how you can restrict the commands allowed and setup a cron job to run rsync.
I've tried using the --password-file option in the past, but this
never worked. I suspect its only valid if the remote host is running
an rsyncd...
Cheers,
Terry.