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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.0.20050303114056.0339ce28@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:43:17 -0500 To: Paul Hodor , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: cron copy on network drives In-Reply-To: <20050303161336.95612.qmail@web21202.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050303161336 DOT 95612 DOT qmail AT web21202 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:13 AM 3/3/2005, you wrote: >Hi, > >I am trying to set up a cron service to update some directories on a >network drive, but I ran into a problem. > >This copy command works from the command-line: >cp -a -u -v //mydrive/myshare/dir1/* //mydrive/myshare/dir2 >> log 2>&1 > >However, if I run it with cron I get the following error: >cp: cannot stat `//mydrive/myshare/dir1/*': No such file or directory > >Do I need to use a different syntax for the path or am I doing >something else wrong? I am running Windows XP Professional version 2002 >SP1 and cygwin DLL version 1.5.12. Read: Why don't my services work (or access network shares)? Most likely you're trying to access a network share when cron doesn't have access to it. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/