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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 17:51:11 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 18 August 2004 17:19

> 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.

  My bad.  GOK how I managed to misremember that, but I was sooo certain
that I'd had to painfully discover that they needed to be the other way
round myself once.  Guess I must have discovered it the way round you've got
it, after all.  I just tested redirection under cmd.exe and even that
behaves the same way, so I didn't even get it from M$-world.  Pardon my
confabulation.

> >   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?

  I meant "id" rather than uname, yes.  As for "set; export", I don't see
how you can consider the execution environment to _not_ be relevant; it's
full of useful and even vital diagnostic information, such as $PATH, to name
but one....

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


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