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Re: cron copy on network drives
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: Paul Hodor <p_hodor at yahoo dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:43:17 -0500
- Subject: Re: cron copy on network drives
- References: <20050303161336.95612.qmail@web21202.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 11:13 AM 3/3/2005, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to set up a cron service to update some directories on a
>network drive, but I ran into a problem.
>
>This copy command works from the command-line:
>cp -a -u -v //mydrive/myshare/dir1/* //mydrive/myshare/dir2 >> log 2>&1
>
>However, if I run it with cron I get the following error:
>cp: cannot stat `//mydrive/myshare/dir1/*': No such file or directory
>
>Do I need to use a different syntax for the path or am I doing
>something else wrong? I am running Windows XP Professional version 2002
>SP1 and cygwin DLL version 1.5.12.
Read:
Why don't my services work (or access network shares)?
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC33>
Most likely you're trying to access a network share when cron doesn't have
access to it.
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