RE: Shell execution

[Upat54wo at aol dot com]

Thanks. This worked, but I sure don't like it.  What a pain!  


In a message dated Fri, 21 Sep 2001  2:32:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Troy Noble <troy.noble@channelpoint.com> writes:

> From /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README:
> 
> "On NT/W2K run cron under SYSTEM account
> as service to use that feature. Note that you don't have access to
> net shares in the child processes then."
> 
> Which means m: (and thus /cygdrive/m) 
> is likely not mapped when your cron job is running...
> as you discovered.
> 
> Search the archives for similar discussions on this
> subject.  A search on Google for cygwin +cron +mount +username
> should do the trick I'd imagine.
> 
> A nifty little trick I've learned... if you don't mind
> storing your NT username and password in a plain text file
> somewhere on your disk (like in your script):
> 
> 
> /winnt/system32/net use m: '\\hostname\sharename' yourpassword
> '/user:YOURDOMAIN\yourusername'
> 
> and later before your script exits
> 
> /winnt/system32/net use /d m:
> 
> The security hole that this opens up should be obvious to
> the casual observer... but it is effective nonetheless.
> 
> Troy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Upat54wo@aol.com [mailto:Upat54wo@aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 12:13 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Shell execution 
> 
> 
> I'm new to cygwin (latest) and NT (4.0 sp 6) but not to UNIX.   I am
> experiencing a conflict between bash and cron execution and hope someone can
> point out what I've missed. 
> 
> When I run a shell from the cygwin prompt/command line, it works fine.
> 
> When I schedule the same shell in cron, I get errors saying the files I'm
> trying to grep on don't exist.   I am using an "*" in the filename because
> there are several, as in file1.log, file2.log, file3.log, etc.
> 
> The script follows.
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> SID=fprd
> xwork=/tmp/check.wrk1
> xdisk=/cygdrive/m/Backups/COLDBACKUPS/FPRD/Logs
> 
> cnt=$(grep -i '0 file' $xdisk/$SID_copyjob*.log | wc -l )
> cnt=$(echo $cnt | tr -d ' ')
> 
> if [ $cnt -gt 0 ] ; then
>    echo "To: xxxx@airtouchpaging.net"                   >$xwork
> #   echo "To: xxx@xxx.org"                   >$xwork
>   echo "Cc: xxx@xxx.org"                                       >>$xwork
>    echo "Subj: Cold Backup Error! There were $cnt files not copied. Please
> manually copy.  " >>$xwork
>    
>    ssmtp -F "DBA Alert" -t <$xwork
> fi
> 
> exit 0
> 
> # end of script
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.  I'm sure there is just a setting I've missed
> somewhere.
> 
> Thanks!  
> 
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