Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/10/29/08:29:50
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 29 October 2004 01:47
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Robert Pollard wrote:
> > Cron will not execute every minute now. I have a scheduled
> task that does
> > something like "* * * * * /bin/echo "Test" >/dev/null
> 1>/TestAct.log" It
> > doesn't execute at all.
>
> Exactly how do you know that it doesn't execute? I hope not
> by the lack
> of output in /TestAct.log, because the above command will
> *never* write
> anything to /TestAct.log... It should change the mod time on
> it, though.
> :-)
Heh, that was my first thought when I saw "echo >/dev/null", but
redirections are applied in the order they appear on the command line, and
so stdout gets redirected first to /dev/null, then the 1> redirects it again
to the file. Try it, it really works:
dk AT mace ~/test> ls -lart
total 0
drwxrwxrwx+ 13 dk Domain U 0 Oct 29 10:43 ..
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 dk Domain U 0 Oct 29 10:43 .
dk AT mace ~/test> /bin/echo "Test" >/dev/null 1>TestAct.log
dk AT mace ~/test> ls -lart
total 1
drwxrwxrwx+ 13 dk Domain U 0 Oct 29 10:43 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 dk Domain U 5 Oct 29 10:43 TestAct.log
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 dk Domain U 0 Oct 29 10:43 .
dk AT mace ~/test> cat TestAct.log
Test
dk AT mace ~/test>
> > Although, it wouldn't execute the scripts because it couldn't switch
> > user context.
>
> mkpasswd -d -u DomainUserName >> /etc/passwd
>
> You may also need to do something for groups, e.g.,
>
> mkgroup -d >> /etc/group
You forgot to mention cron-diagnose.sh! I think 1.7 is the most recent.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00207.html
cheers,
DaveK
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