Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/11/11/21:29:38
Ok, well it wasn't 100% cured with the TTY flag removed but it stopped it
being a 100% daily problem to an "every other day or so" problem (depends on
the direction of the wind I think).
Why does TTY affect the behaviour of rsync and cron jobs?
Also, this may be a silly question, but why does it try to kill my cron jobs
when I log off from my user? Shouldn't they be running no matter what user
is logged in, and regardless of whether I log in or log off? They
definitely shouldn't be killed or need to be killed.
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Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert.
http://www.q-games.com
"Dylan Cuthbert" <dylan AT q-games DOT com> wrote in message
news:bo9l4h$cq7$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org...
> Ok, removing tty from the CYGWIN variable allows me to log off and
shutdown
> now.
>
> Why does the tty flag cause this kind of lock-up behaviour? Is there any
> reason I need the tty flag at all? If not I'll just leave it off
> permanently.
>
> ---------------------------------
> Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert.
> http://www.q-games.com
>
>
> "Dylan Cuthbert" <dylan AT q-games DOT com> wrote in message
> news:bo4g20$v72$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org...
> > CYGWIN=tty is on in the system env vars, shall I switch it off, is this
> bad?
> > I switched it on before I had this problem mind you, but maybe something
> in
> > the post-Sept-19th version mixes badly with CYGWIN=tty?
> >
> > Yes, I understand the "root of the problem" problem (sic.), ie. the
> > programming law that there will always be a lot more causes than there
are
> > distinct effects. ;-)
> >
> > Anyway, I have this daily recurring problem, which seems to me to be
> > duplicatible, yet no-one has tried to duplicate it yet? This is why I
> > repeat the description of my problem wherever I can; in the daft hope
> > someone will set up something similar and see if they get the same
thing.
> > I'm not doing anything complicated, just 2 or 3 rsync's (of half a gig
or
> > so) in a cronjob every two hours to a linux server.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert.
> > http://www.q-games.com
> >
> > "Christopher Faylor" <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote in
> > message news:20031102194147 DOT GA15320 AT redhat DOT com...
> > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:29:53AM +0900, Dylan Cuthbert wrote:
> > > >Actually I think I did mention I was running rsync hourly in a cron
> job,
> > > >that's all I've been mentioning as far as I know.
> > >
> > > Which has nothing to do with selecting on pipes unless (and even this
is
> > > pretty remote) you have turned on CYGWIN=tty for your cron for some
> > > reason.
> > >
> > > The point that I am vainly trying to make is that if one person
reports
> > > a symptom like "hanging" and another person reports a symptom like
> > > "hanging" in a completely different scenario while offering a
rationale
> > > for the behavior, it does not automatically mean that person B has
found
> > > the root cause for person A's problem unless person A and person B's
> > > situations are the same. There is nothing in your (repeated)
> description
> > > of your problem to indicate that is the case.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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