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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:26:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: "adam r. christopher" <adam AT du DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: cron!
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, adam r. christopher wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I am trying to get cron to work, but I'm not having too much luck. It's
> running as LocalSystem, the logs (both in /var/log/crond.log and the Event
> Logs) show no errors, only events such as LIST, and yet it doesn't seem to
> be working.
>
> In my example, I'm simply trying to touch a file called 'gold' in the
> specified directory, but it never shows up. The cript runs fine from the
> command line.
>
> $ crontab -l
> 1,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /cygdrive/u/usr/Core/bin/test.sh
>
> $ cat /cygdrive/u/usr/Core/bin/test.sh
> /usr/bin/touch /cygdrive/u/usr/Core/bin/gold
>
> $ ls -l
> -rwxrwxrwx+   1 Administ 65535          44 Apr  1 09:29 test.sh
>
> $ ls -l /var/cron/tabs
> -rwxrwxrwx+   1 Administ SYSTEM        154 Apr  1 09:42 Administrator
>
> cygcheck is attached.
>
> Any help, guys?
>
> Thanks!
> -adam
> University of Denver

Adam,

You do know that you've installed NetworkSimplicity's OpenSSH and that
it's screwed up your mounts, right?
	Igor
P.S. That subject was *very* suggestive of a SPAM message, BTW...
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