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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 02:22:19 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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To: russ <russ DOT lunn AT russlunn DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: cron doesnt run jobs (sometimes)!
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russ schrieb:

> Hi there list!
> 
> 1st off .im new to cygwin.
> 
> i have built some scripts to do tape backups
> basically a find, then a cpio, then tar it to tape.
> 
> it runs from the command line.
> 
> it doesnt run from crontab, although from event viewer i see that cron ran.
> 
> also i put another line in crontab to run ls -l >> /usr/tmp/test every
> minute.
> this works just fine!.
> 
> ive lightly tapped all my scripts with chmod 777 still doesnt work!

not the script! the data must be readable for SYSTEM.

> btw its a win2k server (dc)
> 
> 
> any ideas?

check if it runs under okay in a "sysbash" shell. must be the permissions.

search the ml archives for "sysbash". still not a package
or run manually:
 > at <soon> /interactive bash --login -i

-- 
Reini Urban
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