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Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 10:36:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: a12 <a12 AT swipnet DOT se>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cron does not execute script
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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
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