On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:08:34PM -0700, linda w (cyg) wrote: > > Perhaps one problem might be that in addition to the normal WinXP env vars that would > be defined for a user, I started cron from one of my cygwin shell windows, so it > would > have inherited all of the env vars from personal login as well. But > conceivably, one could have more than 4K of env vars declared at the system level > as well -- Either way, it's would be generating a 4K log file -- most of which I > wouldn't see (since headers are hidden if I'm reading from, many Win-GUI > (specifically Outlook in my case) email readers). > > Perhaps cron should be purging it's environment or something before starting user > jobs? Seems a bit unclean to pass my environment to cron but then cron just blindly > pass it's environment to a child.
cron behaves as you wish everywhere, except on Cygwin NT. This is discussed in /usr/doc/cygwin/cron.README In a nutshell it was meant for the small service environment. It would be easy to patch cron to behave as it does on Win9X when it is not started as a service. Another option is to keep your script and have it call ssmtp, either filtering out the environment values or putting them in the body of the message. > I'm guessing there's probably a better way to start cron so it comes up at system > start, but how does it switch user ID's? It's not like the GUID's are recorded > in /etc/passwd...?? Or does it switch UID's? Not sure I understand the question. Isn't that what services are for? See cygrunsrv. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
