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From: "Nick Forte" <rforte AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 1.5.19: Problem with cron and microsoft devenv
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Thanks!  That worked.

I tried uninstalling the cron service and reinstalling with the '-u'
(user) option.  At that point I couldn't start the service.  It kept
giving me login error messages.  I then went through cron_diagnose.sh
but that didn't seem to point out anything obvious.  Finally, instead
of running cyrunsrv --install cron .... I ran /usr/bin/cron-config.
When asked if I want to cron under the current user I said 'yes'.
After that cron + devenv worked fine.

Another question I have is about cron and environment variables.  When
I run a shell, even cmd /c, under cron the environment variable
APPDATA doesn't get set.  This seems odd to me.  I believe APPDATA
gets set from shell32 which should be loaded when cron runs 'cmd /c
somescript.bat'.

I am also curious as to why previously calling devenv to clean the
project didn't crash where devenv /build did.  I tried running some
tools like filemon etc... during the cron process and i never saw
anything weird due to permissions.  Ultimately, I'm happy that running
cron under the user is working.


On 5/23/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> Nick Forte wrote:
> > I'm currently having a problem where microsoft's devenv compiler
> > crashes when running under cron.  If I run my build scripts directly
> > from a bash shell devenv works great.
> >
> > I've installed VC2005.NET and cygwin under Administrator.  I then
> > created a crontab entry like so:
> > HOME=/Home/Administrator
> > SHELL=/usr/bin/bash
> >
> > 00 * * * * $HOME/trees/trunk/scripts/master_control.sh
> >
> >
> > In master_control.sh I call a perl script that does some svn and
> > configuration management but ultimately run the following commands:
> > 'devenv.com myproject.sln /clean Release'
> > 'devenv.com myproject.sln /build Release'
> >
> > The first command works great.  It cleans the project and deletes all
> > the *.obj etc.... files.  When it runs the second command I get the
> > following:
> > Application popup: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library : Runtime Error!
> > Program: ...\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
> > This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
> > unusual way.  Please contact the application's support team for more
> > information.
> >
> > At first I thought there was a permissions issue or something of that
> > nature except the first '/clean' command is deleting files and exits
> > gracefully.  As I stated before, the scripts work fine when I run them
> > in a bash shell.  What's different about running under cron vs.
> > running in a bash shell that could be different?
> >
>
> Environment for one.  You should check to make sure you have all of the
> environment variables that you need when running under cron.  I also
> recall others having problems running devenv if the user running it is
> not authenticated through Windows (i.e. password).  You can see if this
> is the cause of your problem by running the cron service as your user.
>
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