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 From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: cron won't execute tasks Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:27:53 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Oct 2004 12:27:53.0312 (UTC) FILETIME=[B6468600:01C4BDB2] > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: 29 October 2004 01:47 > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Robert Pollard wrote: > > Cron will not execute every minute now. I have a scheduled > task that does > > something like "* * * * * /bin/echo "Test" >/dev/null > 1>/TestAct.log" It > > doesn't execute at all. > > Exactly how do you know that it doesn't execute? I hope not > by the lack > of output in /TestAct.log, because the above command will > *never* write > anything to /TestAct.log... It should change the mod time on > it, though. > :-) Heh, that was my first thought when I saw "echo >/dev/null", but redirections are applied in the order they appear on the command line, and so stdout gets redirected first to /dev/null, then the 1> redirects it again to the file. Try it, it really works: dk@mace ~/test> ls -lart total 0 drwxrwxrwx+ 13 dk Domain U 0 Oct 29 10:43 .. drwxr-xr-x+ 2 dk Domain U 0 Oct 29 10:43 . dk@mace ~/test> /bin/echo "Test" >/dev/null 1>TestAct.log dk@mace ~/test> ls -lart total 1 drwxrwxrwx+ 13 dk Domain U 0 Oct 29 10:43 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 dk Domain U 5 Oct 29 10:43 TestAct.log drwxr-xr-x+ 2 dk Domain U 0 Oct 29 10:43 . dk@mace ~/test> cat TestAct.log Test dk@mace ~/test> > > Although, it wouldn't execute the scripts because it couldn't switch > > user context. > > mkpasswd -d -u DomainUserName >> /etc/passwd > > You may also need to do something for groups, e.g., > > mkgroup -d >> /etc/group You forgot to mention cron-diagnose.sh! I think 1.7 is the most recent. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00207.html cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/