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 Message-ID: <014001c4ac85$59282ed0$c600a8c0@rl> From: "russ" To: Subject: Fw: cron doesnt run jobs (sometimes)! Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:50:19 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reini Urban" To: "russ" Cc: Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 1:22 AM Subject: Re: cron doesnt run jobs (sometimes)! > 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 /interactive bash --login -i > > -- > Reini Urban > http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ Ah! it seems to work now. fantastic! does anyone know how to get a system owned bash shell from an RDP session, i can only get one at the console. which is 300 miles away :-< Russ -- 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/