X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <6125573.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 11:56:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Todde To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cron job don't work correct In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: todde.h@web.de References: <6096299.post@talk.nabble.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Igor Peshansky wrote: > > 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/ > > > Hi Igor, Thx for the answer. Is there a possibility to set the cron environment variables in a file (i.e. crontab file) to get always the same behaviour between cron and bash shell when i start cygwin? And which variables (settings) must i set ? Todde -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/cron-job-don%27t-work-correct-tf2201821.html#a6125573 Sent from the Cygwin Users forum at Nabble.com. -- 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/