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: Wed, 7 May 2003 10:36:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: a12 cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cron does not execute script In-Reply-To: <3EB90BFE.297F583D@swipnet.se> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 7 May 2003, a12 wrote: > Hi gurus, > > As I cannot make cron to execute my crontab, I have checked > some earlier posts. I have verified ownership: > /var contains: > drwxrwxrwt+ 3 SYSTEM SYSTEM 0 Mar 13 10:32 cron > /var/cron contains: > drwxrwxrwt+ 2 SYSTEM SYSTEM 0 May 7 11:29 tabs > /var/cron/tabs contains: > -rwxr--r--+ 1 sysaccou none 290 May 7 11:29 sysaccount > > 'crontab -l' yields: > SHELL=/bin/sh > PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin > # mail any output to 'sysaccount', no matter whose crontab this is > MAILTO=sysaccount > * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /home/sysaccount/date.log 2>&1 > * * * * * /home/sysaccount/mpu.sh >> /home/sysaccount/mpu.log 2>&1 > > /home/sysaccount contains: > -rwxrwxrwx 1 sysaccou none 171 May 7 15:25 mpu.sh > > mpu.sh contains: > #!/bin/sh > /usr/bin/date >> /home/sysaccount/mpu.log > > date.log is updated once a minute as expected: > Wed May 7 15:24:00 WEDT 2003 > Wed May 7 15:25:00 WEDT 2003 > Wed May 7 15:26:00 WEDT 2003 > > There is no mpu.log . Why ? > > What have I missed ? > Marek Possibly mounts for the SYSTEM account... What's the output of "mount"? Igor -- 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 Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/