Re: Copy to network UNC path from crontab works in non-production, not in production

[CygwinNoob <mstrickland at globys dot com>]

Thanks for responding so quickly!  I will try using the forward slashes in
Production.  It may take a few days because I don't have direct access to
the Production environment and I have to go through sort of remote hands.

The source server queries Oracle databases through shell scripts running in
a Cygwin bash shell and sends the output files to the target server which is
running SQL Server.  No problem doing that interactively in Production, but
I can't do it from ssh or cron in Production and I can do it in the
non-Production environment.  I cannot see any differences between the two
environments.




Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
> On 5/11/2011 8:50 PM, CygwinNoob wrote:
>>
>> cygwin 1.7.7-1
>> Windows 2008 64-bit
>>
>> I have a script that I am trying to run from cron that copies a local
>> file
>> on a Windows 2008 server to a UNC path on another Windows 2008 server. 
>> It
>> works fine in a non-Production environment, but not in Production and I
>> can't figure out why.  Yes, I've dutifully searched the forum and looked
>> at
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.shares
>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html
>>
>> The answer is not popping out at me.  What I'm doing is basically this:
>>
>> cp a.a \\\\server-name\\sharename
>>
>> What I get in Production is:
>>
>> cp: cannot create regular file `//server-name/sharename': File exists
> 
> So what's the difference between your "Production" and "non-Production"
> environments?  What exactly are you doing in both environments?
> 
> FWIW, you're better off using forward-slashes for pathnames in Cygiwn
> (i.e. //server-name/sharename).
> 
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