Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/10/29/12:13:46
On Oct 29, 2004, at 5:27 AM, Dave Korn wrote:
>> -----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:
Thank you! ;-) I understand the first redirection to be what to do
with the email output. I don't want it to send an email.
>
> 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.
Okay, I'll try this. I did take a look at it but didn't seem to be
something that would be able to tell me why cron doesn't execute at
all.
Thanks!
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00207.html
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
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