X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:16:49 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /cygdrive/f/ missing when my script is executed by cron Message-ID: <20120329091649.GC30721@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Mar 29 10:14, Stéphane Klein wrote: > Hi, > > I try to configure rsync on MS Windows to execute a folder > synchronization every day. > > I use this tools : > > * I've installed cygwin > * I've use cygwin setup.exe to install rsync, openssh, cron > > Next, in cygwin terminal, I did : > > * I've created a ssh key and I've set it up on remote server > * next, I've wrote a bash script which execute rsync. Note : my > source data are in "f:" device, meaning it's in "/cygdrive/f/" path > (from cygwin terminal) > * I've tested my bash script, it works very well, all files are > copied to remote host > * I've used cron-config to configure cron service > * I've append my bash script in cron configuration with crontab -e > * My bash script is executed by cron, I see it with cronevents > > But, I've have an issue : when my bash script is executed by cron, > it hasn't access to /cygdrive/f/, this device isn't mounted ! Remote shares are mounted on a per user-session basis. Cron as a service is not running in your desktop user-session. If you want to access remote shares in your cron session, you have to mount them explicitely in your cron job. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple