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Re: Cron problem/Documentation and Setup


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! So like a good little boy I decided to read the readme for cron again before asking here. Trouble is I have no cron readme!
>
>I remember it was in /usr/doc/Cygwin but alas:


Cygwin docs should now be in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin.  All packages are 
moving that direction.


>$ ls /usr/doc/cygwin
>ctags-5.5.README*         openssl-0.9.7d.README*  whois-4.6.14-1.README*
>ghostscript-7.05.README*  procps-010801.README*
>mc-4.6.0.README*          rxvt-2.7.10.README*
>
>So I figured "Oops, guess I didn't install all the documentation" and fired up setup.exe to download  from the internet. I use ftp://planetmirror.com and when I attempt to do that I get:
>
>(null) line 1537: parse error, unexpected COMMA, expecting STRING
>(null) line 1537: unrecognized line 1537 (do you have the latest setup?)
>(null) line 1537: unrecognized line 1537 (do you have the latest setup?)
>(null) line 1537: unrecognized line 1537 (do you have the latest setup?)
>
>Problem is I *do* have the latest version of setup! I just downloaded it again to make sure. Same error. Tried mirrors.kernel.org - same error!


I assume you've seen <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00587.html>
by now.  If not, read through it.  The problem is fixed.


>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.


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