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Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 19:55:45 +0200
From: a12 <a12 AT swipnet DOT se>
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Subject: Re: cron does not execute script
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Hi Igor,

'mount' yields:
C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)
g: on /cygdrive/g type user (binmode,noumount)
i: on /cygdrive/i type user (binmode,noumount)
j: on /cygdrive/j type user (binmode,noumount)
k: on /cygdrive/k type user (binmode,noumount)

/etc/passwd contains:
SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
admins:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
sysaccount:*:1011:513:sysaccount,U-RRBACK\sysaccount,S-1-5-21-1681026574-976757939-617630493-1011:/home/sysaccount:/bin/bash

/etc/group contains:
SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
none:S-1-5-21-1681026574-976757939-617630493-513:513:
admins:S-1-5-32-544:544:
backup:S-1-5-32-551:551:
guests:S-1-5-32-546:546:
power:S-1-5-32-547:547:
replica:S-1-5-32-552:552:
users:S-1-5-32-545:545:

As the user 'sysaccount' belongs to Windows Administrators
group, may be I should change its group number to 544 ?

Marek

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> 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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