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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:25:24 +0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time)
From: Orfeo Da Via <orfeo DOT davia AT microline-srl DOT com>
To: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cron problem
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On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> > $ uname
> >  Linux
> >
> > $ export VISUAL=zile
> >
> > $ crontab -e
> >
> >  ...edit the file..
>
> Hmm, one detail that's missing: when was the above done?  Before 8:00, or
> after?

About at 8.45, all the commands in the example are sequentially.

> Since you're testing cron, I would suggest starting with
>
> */5 * * * * /bin/date >> /home/calox/tmp/date.out 2>&1
>
> and waiting 5 minutes.  If /home/calox/tmp is still empty, then we'll
> debug further.

In my linux box the my home is /home/calox, in Cygwin my home is
/home/micekiller, then the crontab is

$  crontab -l
 # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
 # (/tmp/crontab.592 installed on Mon Oct 10 14:51:37 2005)
 # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41 corinna Exp $)
 */5 * * * * /bin/date >> /home/micekiller/tmp/date.out 2>&1

so, I waited for 10 min but ~/tmp (/home/micekiller/tmp) is empty.


> A few obvious questions: does /home/calox/tmp exist in Cygwin?  What are
> its permissions (do an "ls -ld")?

$ ls -ld ~/tmp/
 drwxrwxrwx+ 2 micekiller None 0 Oct  8 11:03 /home/micekiller/tmp/

Here the group in None, it's OK? (in Linux is the usergroup)...maybe in
Cygwin isn't possible set the group?



> Are you checking /home/calox/tmp or
> ~/tmp (IOW, is your $HOME set to /home/calox)?

my $HOME is

$ echo $HOME
 /home/micekiller

and I check /home/micekiller/tmp

> And, finally, do you have
> SHELL set in the Windows environment, and if so, to what value?

Mmmm, in  'Control Panel-> System -> Advanced -> Environment variable' the
SHELL variable *not* exists, but in Cygwin

$ echo $SHELL
 /bin/bash

If usefull, my environment var is (in win2000 cmd.exe)

C:\>set

!C:='C:\cygwin\bin'
ALLUSERSPROFILE='C:\Documents and Settings\All Users'
APPDATA='C:\Documents and Settings\micekiller\Application Data'
BASH=/usr/bin/bash BASH_ARGC=() BASH_ARGV=() BASH_LINENO=() BASH_SOURCE=()
BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="3" [1]="00" [2]="16" [3]="11" [4]="release"
[5]="i686-pc-cygwin") BASH_VERSION='3.00.16(11)-release'
COMMONPROGRAMFILES='C:\Program Files\Common Files'
COMPUTERNAME=SN2307128
COMSPEC='C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe'
CVSEDITOR=me
CVSROOT=:pserver:dao AT cvs DOT microline DOT eu/mnt/dati/home/cvs
CVS_RSH=/bin/ssh
CYGWIN=ntsec
DIRSTACK=()
EDITOR=me
EUID=1000
GROUPS=()
GTK_BASEPATH='C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.4'
HISTFILE=/home/micekiller/.bash_history
HISTFILESIZE=500
HISTSIZE=500
HOME=/home/micekiller
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH='\'
HOSTNAME=sn2307128
HOSTTYPE=i686 IFS=$' \t\n'
INFOPATH=/usr/local/info:/usr/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/autotool/devel/info:/usr/autotool/stable/info:
LOGONSERVER='\\SN2307128' MACHTYPE=i686-pc-cygwin
MAILTO=orfeo DOT davia AT microline-srl DOT com
MAKE_MODE=unix
MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/autotool/devel/man::/usr/ssl/man
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1
OPTERR=1
OPTIND=1 OS=Windows_NT OS2LIBPATH='C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;'
OSTYPE=cygwin
PATH='/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/mnt/c/imagemagick:/usr/bin:/mnt/c/texmf/miktex/bin:/mnt/c/WINNT/system32:/mnt/c/WINNT:/mnt/c/shared:/mnt/c/WINNT/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v1.1.4322/:/mnt/c/gs/gs8.11/bin:/mnt/c/GnuWin32/bin:/mnt/c/Pico:/mnt/c/Program
Files/Support
Tools/:.:/cygdriver/c/texUtils/latex2html/bin:/cygdriver/c/Mono/bin:/opt/dar'
PATHEXT='.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.tcl'
PIPESTATUS=([0]="0") PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig PPID=1
PRINTER='\\mlx\Lexmark' PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER='x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7, GenuineIntel'
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=15 PROCESSOR_REVISION=0207 PROGRAMFILES='C:\Program Files'
PROMPT='$P$G' PS1=$'\\[\\033]0;\\w\\007\n\\033[32m\\]\\u@\\h
\\[\\033[33m\\w\\033[0m\\]\n$ ' PS2='> ' PS4='+ '
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor
SHLVL=1 SYSTEMDRIVE=C:
SYSTEMROOT='C:\WINNT'
TEMP=/mnt/c/DOCUME~1/MICEKI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp
TERM=cygwin
TEXDOCVIEW_dvi='cygstart %s' TEXDOCVIEW_html='cygstart %s'
TEXDOCVIEW_pdf='cygstart %s' TEXDOCVIEW_ps='cygstart %s'
TEXDOCVIEW_txt='cygstart %s' TMP=/mnt/c/DOCUME~1/MICEKI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp
UID=1000 USER=micekiller USERDOMAIN=SN2307128 USERNAME=micekiller
USERPROFILE='C:\Documents and Settings\micekiller' VISUAL=jmacs
WINDIR='C:\WINNT'

Thanks...





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