unexpected behaviour of 'find' command

[Prentis Brooks]

What is the Global Environment Variable PATH set to?  Are you are running
crond from within cygrunsrv?

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, James Nallen wrote:

> At 08:23 28/08/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >Just to remove a silly possibility, you didn't perchance run this from the
> >shell, see it remove files, then immediately schedule it as a cron job, and
> >see that the cron job didn't remove any files, did you?
>
> No, I didn't.
>
> >If so, I think you'l see the same behavior if you run it from the shell
> >again.  You already removed all the files less than 4 days old.  Running it
> >again immediately after won't find anything else.
> >
> >If that's not the case, then I don't know what the problem could be.
>
> I've found out it's having problems with the path it's searching. I don't
> understand this.
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: James Nallen [ mailto:James.Nallen@may.ie ]
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 4:16 AM
> >To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> >Subject: unexpected behaviour of 'find' command
> >
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm running cygwin-1.3.2, setup-2.78.2.3 on w2k pro in stand-alone mode.
> >
> >The following file,
> >-rwxr-xr-x    1 Administ None          154 Aug 28 11:43 del_oldfiles.out
> >
> >contains
> >
> >#! /bin/sh
> >rm -f '/home/Administrator/oldfiles.txt'
> >/usr/bin/find.exe /e/work/DBA_Scripts -depth -type f -mtime -4 -exec rm -f
> >{} \;
> >date >> oldfiles.txt
> >
> >
> >When this file is executed from the command shell, it executes as expected.
> >When it is executed from a Cron job, the find command seems to do nothing.
> >Anyone know why this is so?
> >
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >James Nallen,
> >NUI Maynooth,
> >Co. Kildare,
> >Ireland.
> >
> >
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