Subject: Fw: cron doesnt run jobs (sometimes)!
From: "russ" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:50:19 +0100

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reini Urban" <[email-masked]>
To: "russ" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: cron doesnt run jobs (sometimes)!

> russ schrieb:
>
> > Hi there list!
> >
> > 1st off .im new to cygwin.
> >
> > i have built some scripts to do tape backups
> > basically a find, then a cpio, then tar it to tape.
> >
> > it runs from the command line.
> >
> > it doesnt run from crontab, although from event viewer i see that cron
ran.
> >
> > also i put another line in crontab to run ls -l >> /usr/tmp/test every
> > minute.
> > this works just fine!.
> >
> > ive lightly tapped all my scripts with chmod 777 still doesnt work!
>
> not the script! the data must be readable for SYSTEM.
>
> > btw its a win2k server (dc)
> >
> >
> > any ideas?
>
> check if it runs under okay in a "sysbash" shell. must be the permissions.
>
> search the ml archives for "sysbash". still not a package
> or run manually:
>  > at <soon> /interactive bash --login -i
>
> -- 
> Reini Urban
> http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

Ah! it seems to work now. fantastic!
does anyone know how to get a system owned bash shell from an RDP session, i
can only get one
at the console. which is 300 miles away :-<

Russ

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