Re: cron won't execute tasks

[Robert Pollard]

On Oct 29, 2004, at 5:27 AM, Dave Korn wrote:
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From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
Sent: 29 October 2004 01:47

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Robert Pollard wrote:

Cron will not execute every minute now.  I have a scheduled
task that does
something like "* * * * * /bin/echo "Test" >/dev/null
1>/TestAct.log"  It
doesn't execute at all.
Exactly how do you know that it doesn't execute?  I hope not
by the lack
of output in /TestAct.log, because the above command will
*never* write
anything to /TestAct.log...  It should change the mod time on
it, though.
:-)
  Heh, that was my first thought when I saw "echo >/dev/null", but
redirections are applied in the order they appear on the command line, 
and
so stdout gets redirected first to /dev/null, then the 1> redirects it 
again
to the file.  Try it, it really works:
Thank you!  ;-)  I understand the first redirection to be what to do 
with the email output.  I don't want it to send an email.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test> ls -lart
total 0
drwxrwxrwx+  13 dk       Domain U        0 Oct 29 10:43 ..
drwxr-xr-x+   2 dk       Domain U        0 Oct 29 10:43 .
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test> /bin/echo "Test" >/dev/null 1>TestAct.log
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test> ls -lart
total 1
drwxrwxrwx+  13 dk       Domain U        0 Oct 29 10:43 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 dk       Domain U        5 Oct 29 10:43 TestAct.log
drwxr-xr-x+   2 dk       Domain U        0 Oct 29 10:43 .
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test> cat TestAct.log
Test
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test>
Although, it wouldn't execute the scripts because it couldn't switch
user context.
mkpasswd -d -u DomainUserName >> /etc/passwd
You may also need to do something for groups, e.g.,
mkgroup -d >> /etc/group

  You forgot to mention cron-diagnose.sh!  I think 1.7 is the most 
recent.
Okay, I'll try this.  I did take a look at it but didn't seem to be 
something that would be able to tell me why cron doesn't execute at 
all.

Thanks!
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00207.html
    cheers,
      DaveK
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