At 11:50 AM 10/7/2004, you wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Reini Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "russ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 1:22 AM >Subject: Re: cron doesnt run jobs (sometimes)! > > >> russ schrieb: >> >> > Hi there list! >> > >> > 1st off .im new to cygwin. >> > >> > i have built some scripts to do tape backups >> > basically a find, then a cpio, then tar it to tape. >> > >> > it runs from the command line. >> > >> > it doesnt run from crontab, although from event viewer i see that cron >ran. >> > >> > also i put another line in crontab to run ls -l >> /usr/tmp/test every >> > minute. >> > this works just fine!. >> > >> > ive lightly tapped all my scripts with chmod 777 still doesnt work! >> >> not the script! the data must be readable for SYSTEM. >> >> > btw its a win2k server (dc) >> > >> > >> > any ideas? >> >> check if it runs under okay in a "sysbash" shell. must be the permissions. >> >> search the ml archives for "sysbash". still not a package >> or run manually: >> > at <soon> /interactive bash --login -i >> >> -- >> Reini Urban >> http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ > > > >Ah! it seems to work now. fantastic! >does anyone know how to get a system owned bash shell from an RDP session, i >can only get one >at the console. which is 300 miles away :-<
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