After much knashing of teeth, I've finally figured out what made my cron scripts fail:
In a normal shell, the /usr/bin is in at the front of the $PATH. When cron runs as a cygrunsrv service /usr/bin is at the end of the $PATH. In my case, I had a Windows version of "tar" that being executed instead of CygWins "tar", but only when run from within cron as a service. My workaround was to launch the subcript in question via "bash": bash --login -i -c "sh /cygdrive/c/foo/backup.sh" This is not the first time I've run into $PATH problems between Windows and CygWin. Something to look out for. Øyvind -- 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/
