Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/08/18/11:27:41
Larry Hall wrote:
> 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.
Ah yes. I knew there was another place to look but all I could remember
was /usr/doc. I'll have a look see when I get into work.
>> $ 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.
Yes, saw it right after I posted this. Tried a quick download from
planetmirror.com again and received the same error. I assumed the fixes
was purqulating(sp?) and decided to try again today. Again, once I get
into work...
>> 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.
Well initially it was a Perl script that I'm trying to run through cron.
But I then stripped it down to just:
#!/bin/bash
echo "testme" >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
Nothing additional got written into /tmp/debug.log.
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