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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:28:30 -0500
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cron copy on network drives
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Paul,

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:13:36AM -0800, Paul Hodor wrote:
> 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.

The attached script, remount.sh, may help to solve your problem with a
few changes as appropriate:

    1. SSS
    2. DDD
    3. share

and if you are willing to store your Windows password in a file (i.e.,
~/.passwd).

I use remount.sh at work to remount a network share so I can backup my
local home directory (which is not otherwise backed up) to this share
(which is).

My crontab entry looks like the following:

    5 2 * * * remount.sh; backup.sh ...

Jason

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#! /bin/bash

# $Id: remount.sh,v 1.3 2004/10/19 11:13:14 jtishler Exp $

tmp=3D/tmp/.$(basename $0).$$
passwd=3D$(<~/.passwd)
server=3D${server:-SSS}
domain=3D${domain:-DDD}
user=3D${user:-$LOGNAME}
share=3D"\\\\$server\\$user\$"

net use | fgrep -q "$share"
rc=3D$?
if [ $rc -eq 0 ]
then
	net use "$share" /delete >$tmp 2>&1
	rc=3D$?
	if [ $rc -ne 0 ]
	then
		cat $tmp
	fi
fi

net use "$share" "$passwd" "/user:$domain\\$user" >$tmp 2>&1
rc=3D$?
if [ $rc -ne 0 ]
then
	cat $tmp
fi

rm $tmp
exit $rc


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