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 From: James Butenhoff Message-Id: <200206251520.KAA179472@bis5.uhc.com> Subject: Cron & file owner issues To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 10:20:41 -0500 (CDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Howdy! I am just trying out Cygwin. I am running it under NT4(SP6?). I am running "CYGWIN_NT-4.0 6049FHGZD817 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown" per the uname command. I would like to use cron to manage some work and am having difficulties getting it going. I have installed cygrunsrv V0.95 and cron (3.0.1-6?). Used the suggested cmd, `cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D`, to add the process to NT's services. Configured service to run as SYSTEM. NT task manager shows the service running. Cygwin's ps command also shows the cron process: jbutenh AT 6049FHGZD817[0]: ~> ps -aef UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND SYSTEM 214 1 ? Jun 24 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv SYSTEM 363 214 ? Jun 24 /usr/sbin/cron jbutenh 375 1 con 09:22:40 /usr/bin/tcsh jbutenh 269 375 con 09:22:44 /usr/bin/ps jbutenh AT 6049FHGZD817[0]: ~> ps -ael PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND 214 1 214 214 ? 18 Jun 24 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv 363 214 214 359 ? 18 Jun 24 /usr/sbin/cron 375 1 375 108 con 1003 09:22:40 /usr/bin/tcsh 370 375 370 96 con 1003 09:22:56 /usr/bin/ps I have created a simple cron test job: jbutenh AT 6049FHGZD817[0]: ~> crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.121 installed on Tue Jun 25 09:26:46 2002) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.6 2001/09/19 17:09:55 corinna Exp $) * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/mydate jbutenh AT 6049FHGZD817[0]: ~> But the crontab I have entered does not execute properly. :-( I suspect there is a permissions issue, but stumbled into another issue trying to eliminate that possibility. Follow these cmds: jbutenh AT 6049FHGZD817[0]: /tmp> ls -l mydate -rw-r--r-- 1 jbutenh None 27 Jun 18 10:37 mydate jbutenh AT 6049FHGZD817[0]: /tmp> chmod -v 666 mydate mode of `mydate' changed to 0666 (rw-rw-rw-) jbutenh AT 6049FHGZD817[0]: /tmp> chgrp -v Everyone mydate changed group of `mydate' to Everyone jbutenh AT 6049FHGZD817[0]: /tmp> ls -l mydate -rw-r--r-- 1 jbutenh None 27 Jun 18 10:37 mydate jbutenh AT 6049FHGZD817[0]: /tmp> This is on my local hard disk which has a NTFS file system. Do these things not work in NTFS, or do I have something misconfigured? Can you offer any suggestions? --Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------ James Butenhoff, Sr. Software Engineer & Principal Consultant Currently under contract at: United HealthCare Corporation On-site at UHC: Voice: 952.992.4731 U.H.C. E-Mail: jpb AT uhc DOT com =================================================================== -- 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/