Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by
"I take it there are two processes here -- a local one which copies the files over, and another on the server, which runs unseen, and extracts the...
I "inherited" the crontab from an admin who is no longer here. Since I am not a sysadmin, I try to avoid making too many changes on the system. As far as I know, to run scp from crontab I (as a user)...
I just ran a test, I used cron to SCP a file twice - with and without the -C switch. Both runs were ok, and the file sizes are equal. However, this test file was much smaller than the real one. The...
I am transfering a gzipped file from LINUX to LINUX using scp -C comand.
It is a nightly job, called by crontab. After copy finishes, the file sizes are different between source and...