Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:41:02 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: CRON and time Message-ID: <20010710134102.Q8578@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010710131544.03f40038@imap.local.mscha.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010710131544.03f40038@imap.local.mscha.com>; from cygwin@mscha.com on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:19:50PM +0200 On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:19:50PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote: > > >However, one thing is funny. My test crontab had a command like "date >> > >/tmp/hello.txt", and that behaves slightly different with this version of cron. > >When I run date from the cron-3.0.1-2 version, or when I run date from the > >command line, I get output like: > > Tue Jul 10 12:49:29 2001 > >But when I run it with this freshly compiled cron, I get: > > Tue Jul 10 12:49:00 T-1 2001 > >I guess both are incorrect, from a UNIX point of view, and the second one > >is actually a bit better than the first one... > > I've figured out what happens. > > Since the new cron copies the environment from the SYSTEM user, $PATH is > set to the system path. On my machine, that contains the Apple Webobjects > executables before Cygwin, and therefore it ran the WebObjects version of > date.exe. > > If I specify /usr/bin/date as the command, or specify "PATH=/usr/bin" in > the crontab, it works fine. > > Perhaps something for cron.README? Our mails just crossed over :-) No, I don't think it's worth to add that to the cron README. It's a problem which always lurks for a chance to mess things up. It's really a sort of a base problem. NT/W2K users (hm, no, say "admins") are forced to keep track of the machines environment setting, especially when using different POSIX emulations on the same machine. I think it could be worth a mentioning in the FAQ. I haven't yet looked if sth. appropriate already exist in the FAQ, though. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/