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Setting up user mode cron
- From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at Salira dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at Salira dot com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 14:06:23 -0800
- Subject: Setting up user mode cron
- Organization: Salira Optical Networks
I've set up cron on my desktop according to /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README
which states I should:
$ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a D -e "CYGWIN=ntsec"
$ cygrunsrv -S cron
And I have the following crontab installed:
15 * * * * echo -e "Debugging cron $(date)\n" >
/tmp/cron.log
16 * * * * echo -e "Working directory:\n\n$(pwd)\n" >>
/tmp/cron.log
17 * * * * echo -e "ID info:\n\n$(id)\n" >>
/tmp/cron.log
18 * * * * echo -e "Directory listing:\n\n$(ls)\n" >>
/tmp/cron.log
19 * * * * echo -e "Script file:\n\n$(ls /tmp/update_view)\n" >>
/tmp/cron.log
20 * * * * echo -e "Executing: /tmp/update_view defaria" >>
/tmp/cron.log
21 * * * * /tmp/update_view defaria >>
/tmp/cron.log
The resulting output is:
Debugging cron Wed Jan 9 13:15:01 2002
Working directory:
/home/adefaria
ID info:
uid=1370(adefaria) gid=513(Domain Users) groups=0(Everyone),512(Domain
Admins),513(Domain Users),1170(Everybody),1382(ITSupport)
Directory listing:
Script file:
/tmp/update_view
Executing: /tmp/update_view defaria
It seems like cron works OK and runs as me in my home directory but I
cannot access nor run any scripts! Not even in /tmp! Why?
Executing this script from the command line yeilds:
$ /tmp/update_view defaria
update_view: Warning: View pname does not exist: defaria
View pnames should be UNC names that lead to the top of the view
For example: //sons-clearcase/Views/<viewname>
Finally I received an email from cron that stated simply
"/tmp/update_view: not found". So then, how does one set up cron such
that one can use it to run scripts?
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