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I'm using rsync to relay nginx configuration from server A to server B:

0,10 * * * * rsync -avz -O --delete /etc/nginx/sites-available -e "ssh -i /home/ubuntu/key.pem" [email protected]:/etc/nginx

Once that is done (every 10 minutes) I need to reload the remote server's configuration. How can I execute service nginx reload on the remote server as root?

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If you start your nginx server as ubuntu (ssh -i /home/ubuntu/key.pem" [email protected]:/etc/nginx), you don't need to reload as root.

You can send the reload signal to the current nginx process:

ssh -i /home/ubuntu/key.pem" [email protected]:/etc/nginx -s reload
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