UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I've K shell script. It will transfer the files from one server to other server using 'SCP' command. While running the script alone as a command line in UNIX ssh terminal its running with out asking password and files are transferred with out asking for password. But by running the script using 'Auto sys' jil file, its getting failed in the file transfer step stating connection to the server failed .... What should i do to make it successful????

Within the script you have probably a different environment than when you execute from commandline. Start investigating in which way the environment differs and make it equal.

The reason for scp not asking for a password is that a ssh-key is stored for the server/user combination you are connecting to. With the script you maybe use another user (which doesn't have this key stored), you may have not set some variable necessary for your ssh-client, etc., etc. ...

I hope this helps.

bakunin

In error log:
ssh_askpass: (exec(usr/sbin/ssh-askpass)): No such file or directory

Host key verification failed.

So you have found the reason why it fails. Correct that and it should probably work.

bakunin

That means that ssh wants to ask for a password, but has no terminal to get a password with and no other means to authenticate.

How to fix this... With out giving password when running as a Job....

When you "run it as a job [manually]", how is it getting the password? In our Autosys environment, we give the jobs the password automatically and it reads and goes on its' merry way.