Cronjobs not running

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Mon Jan 28 20:21:00 GMT 2008


Gabe Green wrote:
> $ps -W|grep cron
> 1412		1384		1600		con	18	Jan 17  /usr/sbin/cron
> 
> 0 1 * * mon /home/Administrator/monday.sh
> 0 1 * * tue /home/Administrator/tuesday.sh
> 0 1 * * wed /home/Administrator/wednesday.sh
> 0 1 * * thu /home/Administrator/thursday.sh
> 0 1 * * fri /home/Administrator/friday.sh
> 0 1 * * sat /home/Administrator/saturday.sh
> 
> example contents of monday.sh (755):
> #!/bin/sh
> rm -rf /cygdrive/M/ # M is a persistent, network mapped drive
> cp -Rv /cygdrive/D/IBM /cygdrive/M/
> cp -Rv /cygdrive/D/ar /cygdrive/M/
> 
> When I login the next morning, there is nothing in M:\
> 
> However, if I run these scripts manually, they work just fine.
> 
> Any ideas?

Did you look at the FAQ?

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.shares>

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