On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Larry Hall 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! > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > 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. > > 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. > > Well initially it was a Perl script that I'm trying to run through cron. > But I then stripped it down to just: > > #!/bin/bash > echo "testme" >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1 > > Nothing additional got written into /tmp/debug.log.
You have, of course, reviewed > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html and thought of attaching the output of "cygcheck -svr", right? Also, did you try "cron_diagnose.sh" (Google for it)? I suspect some or all of your mounts may not be visible to cron... Do your cron jobs above (i.e., 19 17 * * * ls >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1 20 17 * * * ls -l /tmp/myscript >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1 ) still work correctly after changing "ls" to "/bin/ls"? Does changing "/tmp/myscript" to "sh -c '/tmp/myscript'" help any? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/
