X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45ECAD7F.9050406@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:53:35 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061221 Fedora/1.5.0.9-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: why is my gid different when I run my script under 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-Id: 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 Jerome Fong wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a script that works interactively. However when I schedule it to > run with cron, I encounter permission and environment issues. I checked > and even though my cron process has my user id, my group id is > different. Interactively, I have a gid=10545(mkgroup-l-d), but in my > cron process, my gid=513(None). What specifically are the permission and environment issues you see? You know, for example, that you won't get the same environment running a script under 'cron' as you will interactively, right? > Is there something I need to set up for cron to include my group? Is > there something else I need to set so cron picks up my environment > variables like PATH? If you have a specific environment that you want when you run this script from 'cron', you need to include it as part of the script (or source it in). If you're having further problems, I recommend reading and following the problem reporting guidelines found at the link below prior to any follow-up. Also take a read through the cron man pages and a good 'cron' user's guide. . -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/