Re: cron does not execute script

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Could also be a permission issue.  What are the permissions on the
/home/sysaccount directory?  Also, try redirecting the output to a file in
some other directory (say, /tmp) and see if that works.

You may also need to have ssmtp installed if you set MAILTO (not sure on
that bit).  Try commenting out the MAILTO setting...

Does the Windows event log have any cron messages?
	Igor

On Wed, 7 May 2003, a12 wrote:

> Hi Igor,
>
> 'mount' yields:
> C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
> C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
> c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
> d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)
> g: on /cygdrive/g type user (binmode,noumount)
> i: on /cygdrive/i type user (binmode,noumount)
> j: on /cygdrive/j type user (binmode,noumount)
> k: on /cygdrive/k type user (binmode,noumount)
>
> /etc/passwd contains:
> SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
> admins:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
> sysaccount:*:1011:513:sysaccount,U-RRBACK\sysaccount,S-1-5-21-1681026574-976757939-617630493-1011:/home/sysaccount:/bin/bash
>
> /etc/group contains:
> SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
> none:S-1-5-21-1681026574-976757939-617630493-513:513:
> admins:S-1-5-32-544:544:
> backup:S-1-5-32-551:551:
> guests:S-1-5-32-546:546:
> power:S-1-5-32-547:547:
> replica:S-1-5-32-552:552:
> users:S-1-5-32-545:545:
>
> As the user 'sysaccount' belongs to Windows Administrators
> group, may be I should change its group number to 544 ?
>
> Marek
>
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 7 May 2003, a12 wrote:
> >
> > > Hi gurus,
> > >
> > > As I cannot make cron to execute my crontab, I have checked
> > > some earlier posts. I have verified ownership:
> > > /var contains:
> > > drwxrwxrwt+ 3 SYSTEM SYSTEM 0 Mar 13 10:32 cron
> > > /var/cron contains:
> > > drwxrwxrwt+ 2 SYSTEM SYSTEM 0 May  7 11:29 tabs
> > > /var/cron/tabs contains:
> > > -rwxr--r--+ 1 sysaccou none 290 May  7 11:29 sysaccount
> > >
> > > 'crontab -l' yields:
> > > SHELL=/bin/sh
> > > PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
> > > # mail any output to 'sysaccount', no matter whose crontab this is
> > > MAILTO=sysaccount
> > > * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /home/sysaccount/date.log 2>&1
> > > * * * * * /home/sysaccount/mpu.sh >> /home/sysaccount/mpu.log 2>&1
> > >
> > > /home/sysaccount contains:
> > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 sysaccou none 171 May  7 15:25 mpu.sh
> > >
> > > mpu.sh contains:
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > /usr/bin/date >> /home/sysaccount/mpu.log
> > >
> > > date.log is updated once a minute as expected:
> > > Wed May  7 15:24:00 WEDT 2003
> > > Wed May  7 15:25:00 WEDT 2003
> > > Wed May  7 15:26:00 WEDT 2003
> > >
> > > There is no mpu.log . Why ?
> > >
> > > What have I missed ?
> > > Marek
> >
> > Possibly mounts for the SYSTEM account...  What's the output of "mount"?
> >         Igor

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