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Date:	Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:03:34 -0800 (PST)
From:	"John S." <itsphantom02 AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	cron 3.0.1-19 will not run shell scripts
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Greetings,
    I hope this is an easy one. 

Problem:
 cron will not run any shell scripts.

Description:
As far as I can tell cron works fine, but cron will
not run any shell scripts. The shell scripts work fine
if invoked from the shell.

$sh /home/phantom/backup_script/daily
building file list ... done
/cygdrive/c/docs
/cygdrive/c/docs/test_doc123.txt
/cygdrive/c/docs/test_doc456.txt

sent 322 bytes   received 92 bytes 276.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

The following cron test works flawlessly.

$crontab -l

SHELL=/bin/bash
HOME=/
PATH=/bin:/usr/sbin:/home
LOGNAME=phantom

* * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /test/test.txt
#00 20 * 12 1-6
 /home/phantom/backup_script/daily

However when I place a shell script to start at 20:00
(Or anytime) it does not run. I do not receive any
error messages in windows or cygwin. Below is the
crontab with the shell script I am trying to run.

$crontab -l

SHELL=/bin/bash
 HOME=/
 PATH=/bin:/usr/sbin:/home
 LOGNAME=phantom
 
# * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /test/test.txt
00 20 * 12 1-6 /home/phantom/backup_script/daily

$cat /home/phantom/backup_script/daily

#!/bin/sh

RSYNC=/bin/rsync
SSH=/bin/ssh
KEY=/home/phantom/.ssh/dsa-key
RUSER=phantom
RHOST=192.168.1.33
LPATH=/cygdrive/c/docs
RPATH=/home/phantom/backup/docs/

$RSYNC -avz -e "$SSH  -i $KEY" $LPATH
$RUSER@$RHOST:$RPATH >> /logs/backup.log

Course of action:
To date I have searched all over the web and I have
read the archived the cygwin mailing lists. I have
verified all file permissions.

I have tried to
$chmod
 700 /home/phantom/backup_script/daily
this was unsuccessful 

I was on irc and someone told me to verify my crontab
enviornment variables and I think they look ok.

Thank you for your time,
Cheers
John S.







 
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