RE: Shell execution

[Troy Noble <troy dot noble at channelpoint dot com>]

>From /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README:

"On NT/W2K run cron under SYSTEM account
as service to use that feature. Note that you don't have access to
net shares in the child processes then."

Which means m: (and thus /cygdrive/m) 
is likely not mapped when your cron job is running...
as you discovered.

Search the archives for similar discussions on this
subject.  A search on Google for cygwin +cron +mount +username
should do the trick I'd imagine.

A nifty little trick I've learned... if you don't mind
storing your NT username and password in a plain text file
somewhere on your disk (like in your script):


/winnt/system32/net use m: '\\hostname\sharename' yourpassword
'/user:YOURDOMAIN\yourusername'

and later before your script exits

/winnt/system32/net use /d m:

The security hole that this opens up should be obvious to
the casual observer... but it is effective nonetheless.

Troy

-----Original Message-----
From: Upat54wo@aol.com [mailto:Upat54wo@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 12:13 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Shell execution 


I'm new to cygwin (latest) and NT (4.0 sp 6) but not to UNIX.   I am
experiencing a conflict between bash and cron execution and hope someone can
point out what I've missed. 

When I run a shell from the cygwin prompt/command line, it works fine.

When I schedule the same shell in cron, I get errors saying the files I'm
trying to grep on don't exist.   I am using an "*" in the filename because
there are several, as in file1.log, file2.log, file3.log, etc.

The script follows.

#!/bin/bash

SID=fprd
xwork=/tmp/check.wrk1
xdisk=/cygdrive/m/Backups/COLDBACKUPS/FPRD/Logs

cnt=$(grep -i '0 file' $xdisk/$SID_copyjob*.log | wc -l )
cnt=$(echo $cnt | tr -d ' ')

if [ $cnt -gt 0 ] ; then
   echo "To: xxxx@airtouchpaging.net"                   >$xwork
#   echo "To: xxx@xxx.org"                   >$xwork
  echo "Cc: xxx@xxx.org"                                       >>$xwork
   echo "Subj: Cold Backup Error! There were $cnt files not copied. Please
manually copy.  " >>$xwork
   
   ssmtp -F "DBA Alert" -t <$xwork
fi

exit 0

# end of script

Any help will be appreciated.  I'm sure there is just a setting I've missed
somewhere.

Thanks!  

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