i have created a script file transfer.sh which ftp a test.txt file to server, now i have made the entry of script file in crontab, if i use ftp to transfer the file it works fine in crontab, when i use sftp instead of ftp it is not working in cron tab, but when i manually run the transfer.sh script it works fine and transfer the file using sftp to the server. i don't see any error in log.
my script transfer.sh script is
sftp user/[email protected] <<END_SCRIPT
cd /mydir
put test.txt
bye
END_SCRIPT
crontab was not able to find sftp utility on unix server, there are two ways to resolve the problem.
Append your PATH environment variable with sftp path
Use sftp command with absolute path in your script
example.
/usr/localcw/opt/ssh/bin/sftp user/[email protected]
how to find sftp absolute path, below is example
$which sftp
/usr/localcw/bin/sftp
go to /usr/localcw/bin location
$cd /usr/localcw/bin
hit ls -lrt sftp
/usr/localcw/bin $ls -lsrt sftp
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Apr 11 2012 sftp -> ../opt/ssh/bin/sftp
here again its a soft link to ../opt/ssh/bin/sftp, now cd to ../opt/sh/bin
/usr/localcw/bin $ cd ../opt/ssh/bin
now pwd is your sftp absolute path
/usr/localcw/opt/ssh/bin $ pwd
/usr/localcw/opt/ssh/bin
Use this path with sftp command