Paul, On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:13:36AM -0800, Paul Hodor wrote: > I am trying to set up a cron service to update some directories on a > network drive, but I ran into a problem. > > This copy command works from the command-line: > cp -a -u -v //mydrive/myshare/dir1/* //mydrive/myshare/dir2 >> log 2>&1 > > However, if I run it with cron I get the following error: > cp: cannot stat `//mydrive/myshare/dir1/*': No such file or directory > > Do I need to use a different syntax for the path or am I doing > something else wrong? I am running Windows XP Professional version 2002 > SP1 and cygwin DLL version 1.5.12.
The attached script, remount.sh, may help to solve your problem with a
few changes as appropriate:
1. SSS
2. DDD
3. share
and if you are willing to store your Windows password in a file (i.e.,
~/.passwd).
I use remount.sh at work to remount a network share so I can backup my
local home directory (which is not otherwise backed up) to this share
(which is).
My crontab entry looks like the following:
5 2 * * * remount.sh; backup.sh ...
Jason
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remount.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
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