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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Cron problem/Documentation and Setup
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:01:10 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 18 August 2004 16:54

> > > > 18 17 * * * pwd >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
> > > > 19 17 * * * ls >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
> > > > 20 17 * * * ls -l /tmp/myscript >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
> > > > 21 17 * * * /tmp/myscript >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1

> 19 17 * * * ls >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
> 20 17 * * * ls -l /tmp/myscript >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1


  I haven't been following, so PMFBI, but can I just point out that it may
well be necessary that the 2>&1 should precede the >> /tmp/debug.log if you
want stderr to actually end up in the log file....


  BTW, "uname -a; pwd; set; export" might be a good diagnostic command to
add as a cron job.... isn't this almost certainly a
wrong-user-executing-the-job problem?


    cheers, 
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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