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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:41:59 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: "adam r. christopher" cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cron In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Adam, Quoting from your cygcheck output: C:\Cygwin / system textmode C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\NetworkSimplicity\ssh /bin system binmode C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\NetworkSimplicity\etc /etc system binmode C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\NetworkSimplicity\ssh /ssh system binmode C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\NetworkSimplicity\ssh /usr/bin system textmode C:\Cygwin/lib /usr/lib system textmode C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\NetworkSimplicity\ssh /usr/local/bin system binmode C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\NetworkSimplicity\ssh /usr/local/etc system binmode C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\NetworkSimplicity\var /var system binmode . /cygdrive user textmode,cygdrive This shows a few things: 1) you're missing a system-level cygdrive prefix (therefore, cron won't know about /cygdrive). 2) you're not really running the stuff installed by Cygwin, as your /bin is not mounted from a Cygwin directory. 3) furthermore, your /usr/bin is not the same as your /bin, which brings its own slew of problems. If I were you, I'd uninstall NetworkSimplicity's OpenSSH (which would, hopefully, restore the mounts to their original state), and re-run Cygwin setup. If that doesn't work, run the appropriate mount commands by hand. Mine are: mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin" "/usr/bin/X11" mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin" mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib" mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin" "/" mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/cygdrive" mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/cygdrive" HTH, Igor On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, adam r. christopher wrote: > As a postmaster myself, I should have recognized that my subject line was > SPAMmish - sorry about that. > > Can you tell me more about why/how my mounts are screwed up, and how this > relates to cron? > > -adam > > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > 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... -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Leto II -- 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/