Gabriel Rosca wrote: > Try this ... On your script ... > > /usr/bin/rsync -avzh -e "ssh -i /home/user/.ssh/auth-key" > chloe at remotehost:/var/www/html /backup/html You are correct about the -i switch. Another possibility coming to me mind (if the machine the cronjob is running is not the local machine but remote per ssh): maybe chloe K is using Authentication forwarding (see the -A -a switches to ssh). If so, maybe the private key is only existing on the local machine but not on the machine the cronjob is running. -- best regards, markus