crontab problem

[watergrinder]

I have a script that does ssh connection to a remote server and runs well. I put the same script in cron. It doesn't seem to connect to the remote server. The script runs displaying all but the remote command output. I am using user crontab from my user login. Any ideas why the script is running at prompt and not from cron?

 

[nawlej]

have you already exchanged keys between the two servers? If not, theres a good chance it is hanging at the key exchange prompt.

 

[watergrinder]

Thanks. The client's public key is in both servers. The same script when executed at prompt, just connects well and writes down the output to a file. If run from crontab, the script writes output relating to client (local ) machine but not the remote machines.

 

[watergrinder]

I found the solution. I had to include . profile in the script. It basically kills the current running agent and recreates ssh-agent.