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Re: cron and cygwin


At 01:37 PM 3/5/2005, you wrote:
>I have setup cron services in cygwin and am trying to run a csh scriot using cron
>nad could not get it the script working. I can run the script as it is but when i
>launch it using cron it doesn't work. The script is in a samba share.
>
>
>crontab -e
>------------
>13 10  * * *    (/mnt/user/test/sw/cron.run  | /usr/bin/email -s cron_test  raviram@streamprocessors.com)
>Cron works if i remove the cron.run and use something like the one shown below
>13 10  * * *    ( date | /usr/bin/email -s cron_test  
>raviram@streamprocessors.com)
>I started cron as me using /bin/cron-config. I also tried  using the
>cygrunserver -E -R and -I -S options.
>I mounted the /mnt/user partition using  mount -X ...
>
>cron.run
>----------
>#!/usr/bin/csh
>#(cd /cygdrive/u/p4_main/test/sw; make ncheck)
>(cd /mnt/user/test/sw; rm -f cron.test; /usr/bin/date; touch cron.test)
>
>I would appreciate any pointers, help.


Checked the recent archives?

<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00149.html>



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