X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45253A48.1090000@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:00:56 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: rsync can run in command line but not in cron References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 lin q wrote: > Hi, > I just installed lastest cygwin on windows xp service pack 1. > > I enabled cron in cygwin, the crontab looks like this, > > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/tmp/crontab.3548 installed on Wed Oct 4 19:11:00 2006) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41 corinna Exp $) > USER=toma > USERNAME=toma > HOME=/cygdrive/c/home/toma > HOMEDRIVE=C: > UID=toma > 12 19 * * * /usr/bin/rsync -azvv /cygdrive/u/ /cygdrive/c/bin/swtools > > /tmp/swtools.cron 2>&1 > > > But it does not work, I check the log file, it is like this, > > building file list ... > rsync: link_stat "/cygdrive/u/." failed: No such file or directory (2) > done > > It looks like it can not work with path like /cygdrive/u, this is a > network drive. > > The problem is I can run the exact command in command line. > > Do you know why cron make difference on the path? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (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/