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Re: cron


* adam r. christopher (03-04-01 19:32 +0100)
> As a postmaster myself, I should have recognized that my subject line was
> SPAMmish - sorry about that.
> 
> Can you tell me more about why/how my mounts are screwed up, and how this
> relates to cron?
> 
> -adam
> 
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, adam r. christopher wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I am trying to get cron to work, but I'm not having too much luck. It's
>>> running as LocalSystem, the logs (both in /var/log/crond.log and the Event
>>> Logs) show no errors, only events such as LIST, and yet it doesn't seem to
>>> be working.
>>>
>>> In my example, I'm simply trying to touch a file called 'gold' in the
>>> specified directory, but it never shows up. The cript runs fine from the
>>> command line.
>>>
>>> $ crontab -l
>>> 1,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /cygdrive/u/usr/Core/bin/test.sh
>>>
>>> $ cat /cygdrive/u/usr/Core/bin/test.sh
>>> /usr/bin/touch /cygdrive/u/usr/Core/bin/gold
>>>
>>> $ ls -l
>>> -rwxrwxrwx+   1 Administ 65535          44 Apr  1 09:29 test.sh
>>>
>>> $ ls -l /var/cron/tabs
>>> -rwxrwxrwx+   1 Administ SYSTEM        154 Apr  1 09:42 Administrator
>>>
>>> cygcheck is attached.
>>>
>>> Any help, guys?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> -adam
>>> University of Denver
>>
>> Adam,
>>
>> You do know that you've installed NetworkSimplicity's OpenSSH and that
>> it's screwed up your mounts, right?
>> 	Igor
>> P.S. That subject was *very* suggestive of a SPAM message, BTW...
>> --
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