RE: Problem with cron and cygdrive-prefix

["Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>]

>
> On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>
> > > > c: on /c type user (binmode,noumount)
> > >                 ^^^^
> > > 		that's your problem.  cron is running under SYSTEM
> > > 		account and can't see user mount points.
> > >
> >
> > I've unmounted the remounted, but got a warning. Does this mean, it will not
> > work ?
>
> Have you tried it? Did it work? In your particular situation I suspect
> that it will.
>
Yes it mounts /g in system mode and it works.

> > Administrator@DBSERVER1 ~
> > $ umount /g
>
> Actually the noumount means that you can't umount it, in this case because
> cygdrive causes this mount point.
>
> > Administrator@DBSERVER1 ~
> > $ mount -s -b g: /g
> > mount: warning: system mount point of '/g' will always be masked by
> user mount.
>
This is exactly what I've done and it works, but unfortunally the path settings
for the cron job wasn't set and that seems caused by the user cygdrive prefix
settings.

> Actually, for me system cygdrive prefixes don't seem to work at all if
> there is a user cygdrive prefix:
>
> Michael Hoffman@BARBECUEWORLD /
> $ ls /
> bin/       cygwin.bat*  etc/   lib/     opt/   tmp/  var/
> cygdrive/  cygwin.ico   home/  moocow/  sbin/  usr/
>
> Michael Hoffman@BARBECUEWORLD /
> $ mount --show-cygdrive-prefix
> Prefix              Type         Flags
> /cygdrive           user         binmode
> /moocow             system       binmode
>
> Michael Hoffman@BARBECUEWORLD /
> $ builtin cd /cygdrive/c # for me cd is an alias to pushd so this restores
> # the default behavior
>
> Michael Hoffman@BARBECUEWORLD /cygdrive/c
> $ builtin cd /moocow/c
> bash: cd: /moocow/c: No such file or directory
>
> This seems to be indicated by the source
> [path.cc:mount_info::read_cygdrive_info_from_registry()]. Cygdrive is
> only read once. Deleting the user cygdrive prefix (umount -u
> --remove-cygdrive-prefix) and starting a new rxvt session seems to do
> the job.
>
> So Ralf, my suggestion to you would be to change your system prefix
> and if it doesn't work to make a cron job to remove the user prefix
> for the user cron runs as.
> --
On monday I will inspect this more.

Thanks for any hints.

Ralf




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