X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <455DD14C.6080303@byu.net> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:12:12 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, will.wright@tiscali.co.uk Subject: Re: Cron and find References: <454146830002AB83@mail-6-uk.mail.tiscali.sys> <4559A462.5F4F0171@dessent.net> <45412CD70002C607@mail-2-uk.mail.tiscali.sys> <8EEBC073498952489924A8EC25FBD29D062A9424@RAM-SRV-09.rubicon-uk.com> <7402902.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <7402902.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ugh - top-posting reformatted: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Brian Dessent [mailto:brian AT dessent DOT net] ^^^^ ^^^^^ Double-ugh - raw email munged: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR >> >> The need for quoting the argument to -name is to keep the shell from >> expanding globs (* and ?), so that they can be evalulated instead by >> find. This can be done either with quotes or backslashes, so I would >> expect to see >> >> -name stdout.log.\* >> > > Will Wright-2 wrote: >> Thanks for the tips Brian. I have updated my script accordingly but (as >> you >> guessed) this has made no difference when run via cron. :( >> According to cygwill on 11/17/2006 8:02 AM: > ok - I've worked this out. The find command works if I explicitly use > /usr/bin/find > > no idea why this is an issue when cron runs as the same user I'm logged in > as? > cron runs with a different environment than your default login environment. Are you sure what PATH is being set to from cron's perspective? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFXdFM84KuGfSFAYARAsAaAKC1tdTAi3BcqHhYFiN5yXxizUg0YQCghDtZ 9hBSwne6/waFazjm1nzRvWg= =gzZp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/