I made a short script on one server to backup a folder and send it via FTP to another server. I'm trying to set it to run every minute using crontab. It works perfectly when I run it manually, but when cron runs it, nothing appears to happen (i.e. no file received on the other end). As I said in the title, the task shows up in syslog as if everything is A-OK.

Here's the script:

#! /bin/sh



cd /root



FILENAME="backup-$(date +%b_%d_%Y_%H:%M).zip"



zip -r $FILENAME folder



ftp -in 74.131.78.127 24721 << EOF > ~/log.txt 2>&1



user myusername 

binary

cd Desktop/backups

mput $FILENAME



EOF



rm $FILENAME

Crontab entry:

* * * * * /root/backup.sh

I entered this using crontab -e.