X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:34:23 -0400 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" Subject: Re: cron To: "Kiran, Shashi" , Message-id: <011701c7d9d1$99d45450$600410ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <6A9BBC7F357C7A43A901E5D19DDD9DC34E3568 AT LANRESEXC01 DOT resource DOT corp DOT lcl> 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kiran, Shashi" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:40 AM Subject: cron Hi, I 'm trying to schedule a shell script on cygwin using cron. No matter what I do I don't seem to get the cron job executing my bash script. My script is temp.sh echo `date` > /home/test/temp.log crontab -e is having the following details * * * * * sh /home/test/temp.sh > /home/test/temp.sh.err 2>&1 I did use the paths in the script itself and I also used the windows path where the cygwin installed(/cygdrive/d/cygwin/). I also tried using the following by editing the crontab: * * * * * date > /home/test/date.txt Still not working. I don't have administrator login. I ran the cron_diagnose.sh and it din't give me any errors. Please find the attached cronbug.txt ********* 1- cronbug shows that the cron daemon is running fine as yourself ("test"). 2- You are in the Administrators group. 3- You are running interactively in Terminal Service session on a Windows 2003 Server. I have never tested that setup, but I see that you have sshd and exim (which is stopped) under privileged accounts. Any problem there? 4- Your crontab file has a PATH that does not include the Windows directory, which may cause problems (not sure). Removing that line can't hurt. 5- There are no cron entries in the Windows event log. This is strange. Can you verify that fact by looking the Windows application event log yourself? 6- /usr/sbin/sendmail is linked to exim. Are there any messages in /var/spool/mail/test or any entries is /var/log/exim/exim_main.log ? So the only strange things are 5 and (presumably) that there is no /home/test/date.txt Please look at 6 and 5 for clues and try 4 . If the sshd server works fine, try to rerun cron-config to not run cron as yourself. It should then setup cron to run under the sshd_server account. Let us know... Pierre -- 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/