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: <6.2.1.2.0.20050909202651.040d4d08@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:28:14 -0400 To: "Pagano, Tom - Portland, OR" , From: Larry Hall Subject: RE: cron script can awk wget file but not head/cat it In-Reply-To: <3C46C4ED0F9B944690547357EB7F1C0F04A481@COFORTCOL2S304.agwe st.one.usda.gov> References: <3C46C4ED0F9B944690547357EB7F1C0F04A481 AT COFORTCOL2S304 DOT agwest DOT one DOT usda DOT gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 06:11 PM 9/9/2005, you wrote: >Thank you for the very prompt response. > >If I assume that it's the System that's running the script via the cron, >isn't System the owner of the file that results from wget? Or do wgetted >files belong to someone else? And do Awk and Cat require different >permission levels (presumably awk is more lax than cat because even >though they were doing the same thing, cat couldn't see the file >contents whereas awk could). Besides, from my ls in my previous mail, it >appears to me that user-group-other all have read permissions to all the >files so it shouldn't even matter? > >Do you have any recommendations on how I can change my script or some >setting to fix the problem? I could change all my cat and head >statements to awk statements, but that seems more like treating the >symptom rather than the disease. I think it's worthwhile to consider Brian's comments before making any changes to your scripts... -- 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/