At 10:38 PM 8/17/2004, you wrote
>At 09:39 PM 8/17/2004, you wrote:
>>I'm having a problem with cron in this new environment. I cannot execute any of my
>>own scripts in my ~/bin. I was also having problems executing even things in /tmp!
>>So like a good little boy I decided to read the readme for cron again before asking
>>here. Trouble is I have no cron readme!
>>
>>I remember it was in /usr/doc/Cygwin but alas:
>
>
>Cygwin docs should now be in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin. All packages are
>moving that direction.
>
>
>>$ ls /usr/doc/cygwin
>>ctags-5.5.README* openssl-0.9.7d.README* whois-4.6.14-1.README*
>>ghostscript-7.05.README* procps-010801.README*
>>mc-4.6.0.README* rxvt-2.7.10.README*
>>
>>So I figured "Oops, guess I didn't install all the documentation" and fired up
>>setup.exe to download from the internet. I use ftp://planetmirror.com and when I
>>attempt to do that I get:
>>
>>(null) line 1537: parse error, unexpected COMMA, expecting STRING
>>(null) line 1537: unrecognized line 1537 (do you have the latest setup?)
>>(null) line 1537: unrecognized line 1537 (do you have the latest setup?)
>>(null) line 1537: unrecognized line 1537 (do you have the latest setup?)
>>
>>Problem is I *do* have the latest version of setup! I just downloaded it again to
>>make sure. Same error. Tried mirrors.kernel.org - same error!
>
>
>I assume you've seen <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00587.html>
>by now. If not, read through it. The problem is fixed.
>
>
>>As for my cron problem I can execute rudimentary commands such as ls, pwd and
>>redirect the output to /tmp/debug.log. From that I can see that pwd tells me that
>>I'm in /var/cron. The script I want to execute is under ~/bin (which is on a network
>>share). I copied that script to /tmp and insured that it was set 777. Then I
>>performed the following cron jobs:
>>
>>18 17 * * * pwd >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
>>19 17 * * * ls >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
>>20 17 * * * ls -l /tmp/myscript >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
>>21 17 * * * /tmp/myscript >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
>>
>>Here's the result:
>>
>>/var/cron
>>tabs
>>-rwxrwxrwx 1 TPAD3741 Domain U 5201 Aug 17 17:15 /tmp/myscript
>>
>>/tmp/myscript never get's executed.
>
>
>Sorry, can't really help here. There's just not enough information about
>what your script does or what your environment for me to hazard a guess.
^^^
is
>If you post more details or, better yet, a small test case, I can try it.
>The simple test I did which just echos "Hello World" from a bash script
>worked fine for me.
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