piping problems with cron+4nt

Rafael Kitover caelum@debian.org
Wed Feb 18 21:30:00 GMT 2004


Perhaps try using the cygstart utility, in conjunction with --hide?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mironov, Leonid {PBG}
>Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 12:59 AM
>Subject: piping problems with cron+4nt
>
>I've got a bunch of legacy 4NT batches I want to run from cygwin cron. When
>run from 4NT started from bash these batches work fine but when started from
>cron all lines with redirection and piping fail, e.g. when I run
>
>   dir>q
>
>file 'q' is not created,
>
>   dir|sort
>
>starts sort and it sits and waits for keyboard input. Also output from
>external programs is lost, e.g. if batch looks like
>
>   echo zzz
>   zip zzz *
>   echo qqq
>
>and is run as
>
>0	2	*	*	*	4NT.EXE /c
>ibackup.btm>>h:\\backup\\bk.log
>
>file h:\backup\bk.log will look like
>
>   zzz
>   qqq
>
>zip output is missing, although zip archive is created.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Win XP SP1, just refreshed cygwin and 4NT to latest bulds whith no effect at
>all.
>
>:), Leo


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