Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3CDC265B.3080909@ateb.com> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:58:19 -0400 From: Reid Thompson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cron not finding executable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 May 2002 19:58:49.0039 (UTC) FILETIME=[19BA95F0:01C1F85D] Below is listing of crontab -l, test.sh, mount and ll / 49 15 * * 0-6 /home/rthompso/test.sh 49 15 * * 0-6 /C/home/rthompso/test.sh 49 15 * * 0-6 /C/cygwin/home/rthompso/test.sh all three incarnations failed with "not found". cat /home/rthompso/test.sh = #!/usr/bin/sh /usr/bin/date pwd WS014_NT500:/> mount C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode) C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) C: on /C type user (binmode) D: on /D type user (binmode) F: on /lab type user (binmode,exec) s: on /cygdrive/s type user (binmode,noumount) u: on /cygdrive/u type user (binmode,noumount) WS014_NT500:/> ll / |grep ^d drwxr-xr-x 4 Reid.Tho Administ 0 Jun 25 2001 home/ drwxr-xr-x 2 Reid.Tho Administ 0 Sep 13 2001 sbin/ drwxr-xr-x 3 Reid.Tho Administ 0 Jan 25 12:53 CVSROOT/ drwxr-xr-x 7 Reid.Tho Administ 4096 Apr 16 08:45 var/ drwxr-xr-x 3 Reid.Tho Administ 135168 May 10 07:50 bin/ drwxr-xr-x 15 Reid.Tho Administ 36864 May 10 07:50 lib/ drwxr-xr-x 30 Reid.Tho Administ 376832 May 10 10:21 C/ drwxr-xr-x 21 Reid.Tho Administ 4096 May 10 12:29 usr/ drwxr-xr-x 8 Reid.Tho Administ 4096 May 10 12:30 etc/ drwxr-xr-x 13 Reid.Tho Administ 4096 May 10 13:13 ../ drwxr-xr-x 13 Reid.Tho Administ 4096 May 10 13:13 ./ drwxr-xr-x 104 Reid.Tho Administ 339968 May 10 13:16 D/ drwxr-xr-x 3 Reid.Tho Administ 4096 May 10 13:20 tmp/ -----Original Message----- From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall AT rfk DOT com] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 1:59 PM To: Reid Thompson; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cron not finding executable At 08:06 AM 5/10/2002, Reid Thompson wrote: >If someone could help, it would be appreciated. > >I am getting the error message at the bottom emailed when cron attempts to perform crontab entries ( not finding the executable ). > >The script exists: > WS014_NT500:/home/rthompso> ll mailit.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 1 Reid.Tho Administ 63 May 10 07:40 mailit.sh* > >The crontab entry is ( test entry ): > 42 07 * * 0-6 /home/rthompso/mailit.sh > >SYSTEM exits in /etc/group >WS014_NT500:/home/rthompso> cat /etc/group |grep SYSTEM >SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18: > >What am I missing/doing incorrectly? >/C/cygwin/home/rthompso/mailit.sh > >/home/rthompso/mailit.sh: not found As near as I can tell, you don't have /home as a system mount point. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/