X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:22:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Todde cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cron job don't work correct In-Reply-To: <6096299.post@talk.nabble.com> Message-ID: References: <6096299.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Todde wrote: > With cygwin i want run a daily script that should build my source every day. > I want do that with a cron job. > [snip] > > Here is the problem: > But i.e. if i call another script from the cronscript.sh it don't work > as a cronjob but it work when i enter it on the command line. > > [snip] > Any ideas why the behaviour is so different between command line and cron > job ?? Cron runs with different environment settings than your command line (which uses a login shell). You will need to either specify paths to executables explicitly in your cron scripts, or run them using the login bash shell (e.g., use this in your cron script: /bin/bash -l -c "check.sh" ). It's usually better to go with explicit paths, though. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/