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Cron & file owner issues
- From: James Butenhoff <jpb at uhc dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 10:20:41 -0500 (CDT)
- Subject: Cron & file owner issues
Howdy!
I am just trying out Cygwin. I am running it under NT4(SP6?). I
am running "CYGWIN_NT-4.0 6049FHGZD817 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25
11:14 i686 unknown" per the uname command. I would like to use cron
to manage some work and am having difficulties getting it going.
I have installed cygrunsrv V0.95 and cron (3.0.1-6?). Used the suggested
cmd, `cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D`, to add the process
to NT's services. Configured service to run as SYSTEM. NT task manager
shows the service running. Cygwin's ps command also shows the cron
process:
jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: ~> ps -aef
UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND
SYSTEM 214 1 ? Jun 24 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
SYSTEM 363 214 ? Jun 24 /usr/sbin/cron
jbutenh 375 1 con 09:22:40 /usr/bin/tcsh
jbutenh 269 375 con 09:22:44 /usr/bin/ps
jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: ~> ps -ael
PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
214 1 214 214 ? 18 Jun 24 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
363 214 214 359 ? 18 Jun 24 /usr/sbin/cron
375 1 375 108 con 1003 09:22:40 /usr/bin/tcsh
370 375 370 96 con 1003 09:22:56 /usr/bin/ps
I have created a simple cron test job:
jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: ~> crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.121 installed on Tue Jun 25 09:26:46 2002)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.6 2001/09/19 17:09:55 corinna Exp $)
* * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/mydate
jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: ~>
But the crontab I have entered does not execute properly. :-(
I suspect there is a permissions issue, but stumbled into another
issue trying to eliminate that possibility. Follow these cmds:
jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: /tmp> ls -l mydate
-rw-r--r-- 1 jbutenh None 27 Jun 18 10:37 mydate
jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: /tmp> chmod -v 666 mydate
mode of `mydate' changed to 0666 (rw-rw-rw-)
jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: /tmp> chgrp -v Everyone mydate
changed group of `mydate' to Everyone
jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: /tmp> ls -l mydate
-rw-r--r-- 1 jbutenh None 27 Jun 18 10:37 mydate
jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: /tmp>
This is on my local hard disk which has a NTFS file system.
Do these things not work in NTFS, or do I have something
misconfigured? Can you offer any suggestions?
--Jim
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James Butenhoff, Sr. Software Engineer & Principal Consultant
Currently under contract at: United HealthCare Corporation
On-site at UHC: Voice: 952.992.4731 U.H.C. E-Mail: jpb@uhc.com
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