Trying to make rclone.conf available to all users on Linux

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I have created a working rclone.conf file on a Linux CentOS derivative for use with Wasabi. I did so as regular user and it works as that user. Now I need to run rclone as 'root' from crontab but I keep getting the error: Config file "/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
I've tried chmod of the conf file to allow rw access to all
I've tried setting RCLONE_CONFIG equal to the path and exporting it:
RCLONE_CONFIG=/home/ITAdmin/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
export RCLONE_CONFIG

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

- os/version: centos 7.9.2009 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 3.10.0-1160.88.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.21.1
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none```

####  Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)
Wasabi

#### The command you were trying to run (eg `rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp`)

rclone copy --dry-run /home/bionano/access/web/Server/databaseFiles/ -P -v --skip-links --log-file /scripts/output/copylog.txt wasabi2:bionanohome1/bionano/databaseFiles/


#### Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

[wasabi2]
type = s3
provider = Wasabi
access_key_id = XXX
secret_access_key = XXX
endpoint = s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com```

A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag

2023/10/10 09:29:12 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.64.0" starting with parameters ["rclone" "-vv" "copy" "--dry-run" "/home/bionano/access/web/Server/databaseFiles/" "-P" "-v" "--skip-links" "--log-file" "/scripts/output/copylog.txt" "wasabi2:bionanohome1/bionano/databaseFiles/"]
2023/10/10 09:29:12 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "/home/bionano/access/web/Server/databaseFiles/"
2023/10/10 09:29:12 NOTICE: Config file "/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf" not found - using defaults
2023/10/10 09:29:12 DEBUG : local: detected overridden config - adding "{HK82T}" suffix to name
2023/10/10 09:29:12 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "/home/bionano/access/web/Server/databaseFiles/" to be canonical "local{HK82T}:/home/bionano/access/web/Server/databaseFiles"
2023/10/10 09:29:12 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "wasabi2:bionanohome1/bionano/databaseFiles/"
2023/10/10 09:29:12 Failed to create file system for "wasabi2:bionanohome1/bionano/databaseFiles/": didn't find section in config file```
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"Trying to make rclone.conf available to all users on Linux"

then put the rclone.conf in a location available to all users
RCLONE_CONFIG=/rclone/rclone.conf
or
--config=/rclone/rclone.conf

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I can certainly move the .conf file to a more "public" directory. Once done, could I then add "--config=" to the command execution? Like
rclone copy --config=/rclone/rclone.conf --dry-run /home/bionano/access/web/Server/databaseFiles/ -P -v --skip-links --log-file /scripts/output/copylog.txt wasabi2:bionanohome1/bionano/databaseFiles/
(using your path example)?

4

that is correct,

5

Or you can just make a global environment variable and point to that by default.

RCLONE_CONFIG=/opt/rclone/rclone.conf

I don't append that anywhere as I'm lazy.

6

Thank you all for your help! The suggestions have resolved my problem.

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