i am using pemkey scp not wok in crontab. but run mannualy it work

Question

On a ubuntu setup I have a script like this:

#!/bin/bash 
scp -i my.pem /home/fileupload/*txt username@ipserver:/home/loc
exit

i run mannualy it work without cron

thank you

Answer 1

Suggest to use absolute path to everything in your script.

#!/bin/bash 
/usr/bin/scp -i /home/<USER_NAME>/my.pem /home/fileupload/*txt username@ipserver:/home/loc
exit

Make sure the crontab is assigned to user <USER_NAME>

In crontab line use absolute path as well.