I was getting the following error when a script was being executed via cron.
Host key verification failed. lost connection
But when the script was executed manually from the command line it worked without any issues.
* This worked for me in my particular case. This may not work in every case.
I added the following statements to the script and then ran it from cron.
which scp which ssh
The output from the two which commands :
/usr/bin/scp /usr/bin/ssh
What this told me was that the PATH I set in my cron script was forcing the script to use the scp and ssh commands in /usr/bin.
When I ran the same commands from the command line it became clear that it worked without any issues using ssh and scp in /usr/local/bin.
# which ssh;which scp /usr/local/bin/ssh /usr/local/bin/scp
My fix was to specify which scp and ssh the script should use.
Before:
scp ssh
After:
/usr/local/bin/scp /usr/local/bin/ssh