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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:18:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Dave Korn <dk AT artimi DOT com>
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Subject: RE: Cron problem/Documentation and Setup
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Dave Korn wrote:

> > -----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....

Nope, that part was correct.  If you put 2>&1 before the >> redirection, 
stderr will end up on stdout.  See the sh and bash manpages.

>   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?

Huh?  "uname -a" should only be useful if there's more than one Cygwin 
version on the machine -- otherwise, the output should be identical for 
all users.  "pwd" is already there.  I don't see how "set;export;" is 
relevant at all, frankly...  Did you, by chance, mean "id" instead?
	Igor
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