Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/08/29/05:59:09
At 11:55 28/08/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>At 07:16 AM 8/28/2001, James Nallen wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm running cygwin-1.3.2, setup-2.78.2.3 on w2k pro in stand-alone mode.
> >
> >The following file,
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 Administ None 154 Aug 28 11:43 del_oldfiles.out
> >
> >contains
> >
> >#! /bin/sh
> >rm -f '/home/Administrator/oldfiles.txt'
> >/usr/bin/find.exe /e/work/DBA_Scripts -depth -type f -mtime -4 -exec rm
> -f {} \;
> >date >> oldfiles.txt
> >
> >
> >When this file is executed from the command shell, it executes as
> expected. When it is executed from a Cron job, the find command seems to
> do nothing. Anyone know why this is so?
>
>
>Very likely its because the user running cron is not the same as the user
>running the command interactively. I suggest checking out some of the
>docs for cron and even inetutils to get a better understanding of some
>of the considerations to run as other users.
>
Thanks for your suggestion. It turns out that the cron service is running
under the Local System account. I am logged in as the Administrator. The
drives I want to access were mounted in user mode. The Administrator is not
the same as the Local System account, therefore when I run the cron job, I
do not have access to the mounted drives.
I have mounted the drives in system mode, now I get the results that I
would expect.
Thank you.
>Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
>RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
>118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
>Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
>
>
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