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-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Sanjay Goel" Subject: Re: cron in cygwin Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 19:55:27 +0530 Lines: 156 Message-ID: References: X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 ls -ld /d gives drwxrwxrwx+ 31 Administ Administ 24576 May 9 19:42 /d/ getfacl /d gives # file: /d # owner: Administrators # group: Administrators user::--- group::--- mask:rwx other:rwx default:other:rwx changing the script to /tmp/date.log also does not work only issue I see is that ls -l /var/cron/tabs/sgoel gives -rw-r----- 1 sgoel SYSTEM 284 May 9 19:53 /var/cron/tabs/sgoel I changed its permisson to rwxrwxrwx but as soon as I install a new crontab, the permission come again Regards, Sanjay "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message news:Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 44 DOT 0305090921090 DOT 9872-100000 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu... > Sanjay, > > There's nothing obviously wrong with your cygcheck output (except your > /etc/group not being up to date, but I'm not sure it'd affect cron). And > I see you also used Mark A. Harig's script to detect cron problems... > > If I had to venture a guess, I'd say it's a permissions issue -- what are > the permissions on /d (the output of "ls -ld /d" and "getfacl /d")? Does > your cron script work if you change /d/date.log to /tmp/date.log? > Igor > > On Fri, 9 May 2003, Sanjay Goel wrote: > > > mount yields > > D:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system > > (binmode) > > D:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) > > D:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) > > D:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) > > c: on /c type system (binmode,noumount) > > d: on /d type system (binmode,noumount) > > e: on /e type system (binmode,noumount) > > > > crontab -l yields > > > > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > > # (/tmp/crontab.2148 installed on Thu May 8 19:27:29 2003) > > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $) > > * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /d/date.log 2>&1 > > #0 22 * * * updatedb --localpaths="/ /c /d /e" > > > > output of cygcheck -srv is attached ... > > > > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message > > news:Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 44 DOT 0305081438330 DOT 22924-100000 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu... > > > Sanjay, > > > > > > Are all relevant mounts system mounts, or user mounts? Please *attach* > > > the output of "cygcheck -svr" as per . > > > Igor > > > > > > On Thu, 8 May 2003, Sanjay Goel wrote: > > > > > > > I tried out > > > > * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /d/date.log 2>&1 > > > > but my date.log is not updating ... > > > > the cron is still not working .. > > > > as per post by a12 I also did > > > > > > > > cygrunsrv -E cron > > > > cygrunsrv -R cron > > > > cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e "CYGWIN=tty ntsec" -f > > "Cygwin > > > > cron" > > > > cygrunsrv -S cron > > > > > > > > but it still is not working > > > > > > > > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message > > > > news:Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 44 DOT 0305080825130 DOT 3212-100000 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu... > > > > > Try "/d/test.sh >> /d/test.log" ;-) > > > > > Igor > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 8 May 2003, Sanjay Goel wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks a lot both of you ... > > > > > > I have used cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D > > > > > > and now cron is installed as a service in my win2k services . > > > > > > I hope my cron jobs will run fine now ... > > > > > > can u tell me how to test whether it works properly. > > > > > > I wrote a script called test.sh containing "echo test" and wrote > > > > > > */2 * * * * /d/test.sh > > > > > > but nothing came on my screen > > > > > > I have not installed ssmtp so cant check that in mail ... > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > > > > > Sanjay > > > > > > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message > > > > > > news:Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 44 DOT 0305071452260 DOT 3212-100000 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu... > > > > > > > On Wed, 7 May 2003, Bill C. Riemers wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This is *way* too complicated. It's fine if you run other > > things > > > > > > using > > > > > > > > > sysvinit, but if all you want is cron, try the way described > > in > > > > > > > > > /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README (you did read it, didn't you? > > that > > > > > > directory > > > > > > > > > contains the necessary instructions specifically for the > > Cygwin > > > > > > ports -- > > > > > > > > > see ). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, I did try the directions in the README, but they do not > > work. > > > > > > > > "cygrunsrv" does not have -D option... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > cygrunsrv: unknown option -- D > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Bill, did you use the *exact* line from > > /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > | Install as service like that: > > > > > > > | cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D > > > > > > > ^^ > > > > > > > The "-a" is a cygrunsrv option. It tells cygrunsrv to pass the > > "-D" > > > > > > > option to cron. > > > > > > > [snip] > > -- > 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/