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Re: Cron problem
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On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Orfeo Da Via wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > > $ uname
> > > Linux
> > >
> > > $ export VISUAL=zile
> > >
> > > $ crontab -e
> > >
> > > ...edit the file..
> >
> > Hmm, one detail that's missing: when was the above done? Before 8:00, or
> > after?
>
> About at 8.45, all the commands in the example are sequentially.
Interesting... I thought the semantics were such that if the start time
is missed, the next day is used. I'll have to re-read the cron
documentation.
> > Since you're testing cron, I would suggest starting with
> >
> > */5 * * * * /bin/date >> /home/calox/tmp/date.out 2>&1
> >
> > and waiting 5 minutes. If /home/calox/tmp is still empty, then we'll
> > debug further.
>
> In my linux box the my home is /home/calox, in Cygwin my home is
> /home/micekiller, then the crontab is
>
> $ crontab -l
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.592 installed on Mon Oct 10 14:51:37 2005)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41 corinna Exp $)
> */5 * * * * /bin/date >> /home/micekiller/tmp/date.out 2>&1
>
> so, I waited for 10 min but ~/tmp (/home/micekiller/tmp) is empty.
Is your user an administrative user? Is your home on a network share?
Try changing the above to
*/5 * * * * /bin/date >> /tmp/date.out 2>&1
Does /tmp/date.out get created?
> > A few obvious questions: does /home/calox/tmp exist in Cygwin? What are
> > its permissions (do an "ls -ld")?
>
> $ ls -ld ~/tmp/
> drwxrwxrwx+ 2 micekiller None 0 Oct 8 11:03 /home/micekiller/tmp/
>
> Here the group in None, it's OK? (in Linux is the usergroup)...maybe in
> Cygwin isn't possible set the group?
It is possible, but the group shouldn't matter. Note that '+' at the end
of the permission string means that there are extra ACLs set for that
directory -- some of these may deny the necessary access.
> > Are you checking /home/calox/tmp or
> > ~/tmp (IOW, is your $HOME set to /home/calox)?
>
> my $HOME is
>
> $ echo $HOME
> /home/micekiller
>
> and I check /home/micekiller/tmp
Ok, just a sanity check.
> > And, finally, do you have SHELL set in the Windows environment, and if
> > so, to what value?
>
> Mmmm, in 'Control Panel-> System -> Advanced -> Environment variable' the
> SHELL variable *not* exists, but in Cygwin
>
> $ echo $SHELL
> /bin/bash
That's ok -- bash sets SHELL if it's not set in the parent environment.
> If usefull, my environment var is (in win2000 cmd.exe)
>
> C:\>set
> [snip]
> PATH='/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/mnt/c/imagemagick:/usr/bin:/mnt/c/texmf/miktex/bin:/mnt/c/WINNT/system32:/mnt/c/WINNT:/mnt/c/shared:/mnt/c/WINNT/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v1.1.4322/:/mnt/c/gs/gs8.11/bin:/mnt/c/GnuWin32/bin:/mnt/c/Pico:/mnt/c/Program Files/Support Tools/:.:/cygdriver/c/texUtils/latex2html/bin:/cygdriver/c/Mono/bin:/opt/dar'
Aside from the fact that you seem to have run "set" from a bash shell,
whereas your prompt above is from a "cmd" shell, and that you use
"/cygdriver" instead of the standard "/cygdrive", the output looks fine.
FWIW, I just installed "cron" from scratch using /usr/bin/cron-config, put
*/5 * * * * /bin/date >> /tmp/date.out 2>&1
in my crontab, and sure enough, /tmp/date.out got created. Try that one
first, and if it works, you'll know that there is some issue with your
home directory that prevents cron from writing there.
BTW, what are the permissions on /home and /home/micekiller? They have
to have at least the execute bits set for /home/micekiller/tmp to be
accessible.
HTH,
Igor
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