Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/11/20/17:27:41
Igor,
The output I displayed in my last posting was from the event log. It is not
what my script is supposed to output. My script uses the lynx utility to
download specific data files from an http site and echoes some progress
statements back to the shell. I have tried what you suggested below and the
"hello world" date crontab as well. Both do not work. I have also tried
different combinations of path (/bin and /usr/bin) in my crontab, but still
no luck. Note, I open a bash shell from /bin/bash and write my crontab from
there. Just a quick sidetrack...why does the "pwd" command give /usr/bin
when the shell was opened in /bin?
Any other ideas of what the problem could be? Do you think it's
path-related? Thank you so much...
----------------------
Tim,
Replies inline below.
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote:
> Igor
>
> I have attached the windows event log. Can you help? Thanks.
>
> Event Type: Information
> Event Source: ./crontab
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 0
> Date: 11/18/2003
> Time: 10:37:29 AM
> User: ECPACIFIC\ashmant
> Computer: TAYLORBILL
> Description:
> The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( ./crontab ) cannot be
found.
> The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or
> message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The
following
> information is part of the event: ./crontab : PID 596 :
> (ashmant) LIST (ashmant).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Isn't this what your script is supposed to output? Looks to me like your
crontab actually worked. If you don't redirect the output of your script,
it goes to syslog (which, in case of Cygwin, is the Windows event log).
Try changing your crontab entry to something like
33 12 * * * /usr/bin/bsh_ubcfxscript.txt >> /tmp/bsh_ubcfxscript.out
and see if it works. In fact, did you try the "Hello, world!" of all
crontabs, i.e.
33 12 * * * /bin/date >> /tmp/date.out
? HTH,
Igor
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> To: Tim Ashman <wolfgang_mx3 AT hotmail DOT com>
> CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000
> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:00:32 -0500 (EST)
>
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote:
>
> >Crontab will not run on my Cygwin platform.
> >
> >I am using Cygwin 1.5.5 under Windows 2000 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4.
> >
> >I want to schedule some bash scripts using crontab. Each script runs
> >perfectly fine on its own. I created the following crontab from the bash
> >shell, located at /bin/bash:
> >
> > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> > # (/tmp/crontab.1904 installed on Wed Nov 19 12:32:06 2003)
> > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna
Exp $)
> >
> > 33 12 * * * /usr/bin/bsh_ubcfxscript.txt
> >
> >When the time scheduled arrives, nothing happens. No error messages
occur
> >and the script does not execute.
> >
> >cygcheck.out is attached
> >
> >Thank you.
>
> Did you check the Windows Event log?
> Igor
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