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Re: Setting up user mode cron
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at Salira dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at Salira dot com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 17:26:55 -0500
- Subject: Re: Setting up user mode cron
At 05:06 PM 1/9/2002, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>I've set up cron on my desktop according to /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README which states I should:
>
>$ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a D -e "CYGWIN=ntsec"
>$ cygrunsrv -S cron
>
>And I have the following crontab installed:
>
>15 * * * * echo -e "Debugging cron $(date)\n" >
>/tmp/cron.log
>16 * * * * echo -e "Working directory:\n\n$(pwd)\n" >> /tmp/cron.log
>17 * * * * echo -e "ID info:\n\n$(id)\n" >> /tmp/cron.log
>18 * * * * echo -e "Directory listing:\n\n$(ls)\n" >> /tmp/cron.log
>19 * * * * echo -e "Script file:\n\n$(ls /tmp/update_view)\n" >> /tmp/cron.log
>20 * * * * echo -e "Executing: /tmp/update_view defaria" >> /tmp/cron.log
>21 * * * * /tmp/update_view defaria >> /tmp/cron.log
>
>The resulting output is:
>
>Debugging cron Wed Jan 9 13:15:01 2002
>
>Working directory:
>
>/home/adefaria
>
>ID info:
>
>uid=1370(adefaria) gid=513(Domain Users) groups=0(Everyone),512(Domain Admins),513(Domain Users),1170(Everybody),1382(ITSupport)
>
>Directory listing:
>
>
>
>Script file:
>
>/tmp/update_view
>
>Executing: /tmp/update_view defaria
>
>It seems like cron works OK and runs as me in my home directory but I cannot access nor run any scripts! Not even in /tmp! Why?
Did you choose to mount '/' as 'user' rather than 'system' during the
install? Check the output of 'mount' to find out.
>Executing this script from the command line yeilds:
>
>$ /tmp/update_view defaria
>update_view: Warning: View pname does not exist: defaria
>
>View pnames should be UNC names that lead to the top of the view
>For example: //sons-clearcase/Views/<viewname>
I believe you need to alter the permissions of the 'SYSTEM' account so
that it can access the network. I might be wrong on this. Check the
email archives for similar discussions on cron. This *has* come up
before.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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