Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:52:41 -0400 From: Al Goodniss To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /etc/profile not being executed by cron job Message-ID: <20030926145241.GB3228@townisp.com> Reply-To: amg@townisp.com References: <20030925161417.GA3476@townisp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-105.0 required=8.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT,USER_IN_WHITELIST version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Thanks Igor. I followed your adivce and changed the #! line to #!/usr/bin/bash -l and that worked for me. The script I'm using to do backups automatically moves itself around using absolute paths so having profile do that last 'cd "$HOME"' wasn't an issue. -Al On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:38:09PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Al Goodniss wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Please point me to what I missed. I have a simple cron job doing backups > > using tar and find. Works flawlessly in an interactive shell. Cron also > > works fine for fetching mail, etc. The combination doesn't work. > > > > When I run my bash (tcsh also fails) script via Cron the wrong find is > > found. Instead of /usr/bin/find I get the windows version. My > > /etc/profile does prepend the directories, the permissions seen accurate > > - as per the other fixes that were in the archives. > > > > What did I miss? > > > > -Al > > > > --- Test script --- > > #!/usr/bin/bash > > [snip] > > The regular invocation of bash is a non-login shell, and thus won't > execute /etc/profile. > > Try changing the #! line to "#!/usr/bin/bash -l". Be aware that you will > not be able to use a relative path either to invoke the script or inside > the script after that, as /etc/profile does a 'cd "$HOME"'. > > Alternatively, you can add the following to the top of the script: > > if ! shopt -q login_shell; then > exec -l /bin/bash --login "$PWD/$0" "$PWD" "$@" > fi > cd "$1" > shift > > The above should work even with relative paths, but I haven't tested it > extensively. > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route > to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/