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Subject:	Re: Cron and find
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On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 07:08:07AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>According to Christophe Sauthier on 12/23/2005 6:51 AM:
>>I've been googling a bit, and I've found nothing really usefull...
>>Does anybody encount that problem and has a solution ?  By the way,
>>just a little precision : the user that execute the cron job and the
>>shell are the same, and my system is win 2003.
>
>Actually, the users probably aren't the same.
>
>http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.shares
>
>My guess is that you are trying to use find to traverse a network
>share, hence it isn't finding anything since the share is inaccessible
>to the SYSTEM user.

That was my guess, too.  Either that or the PATH is different in the
cron script and the windows version of find is being run rather than
the cygwin version.

cgf

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