On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 10:22:23AM GMT, [email protected] wrote:
> In the man page for keychain it says:
>
> To load keychain variables from a script (for example from cron) and
> abort unless id_dsa is available:
>
> # Load keychain variables and check for id_dsa
> [ -z "$HOSTNAME" ] && HOSTNAME=`uname -n`
> . $HOME/.keychain/$HOSTNAME-sh 2>/dev/null
> ssh-add -l 2>/dev/null | grep -q id_dsa || exit 1
>
> However, when run from cron, HOME is set to /var/log and not the home
> directory of the cron job user so this doesn't work.
>
Mark,
That's very strange, my crontab(5) file is full of:
@hourly $HOME/bin/foo
@daily $HOME/bin/bar
Are you sure that's what the issue is?
Regards,
Raf
