----- Original Message ----- From: "Jörg Schreiber" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 11:31 AM Subject: Problems with cron
Hi, I've installed cygwin and I'm very pleased with it. Now I want to use cron to run some kind of backup script where I need the possibilities of a real shell (not DOS). After installing cron and ssmtp I first got e-mails from cron. It seems to run, but since I've started cron as a service (2008/10/17) it didn't work anymore and I don't know what "can't cd to HOME" means. The HOME environment variable is set and nothing was changed between 16th and 17th. ********* That's weird. The cron daemon is running as yourself, so access to network drives should not be a problem (HOME = /cygdrive/h, I presume). One explanation is that h: is not accessible to you when running as a service. This can be confirmed by the following test, which does not involve cron at all. 1) Create a shell script: ~: cat > c:/testit env pwd cd /cygdrive/h <== use whatever is proper pwd <ctrl-D> 2) Create and run a "test" service under yourself ~: cygrunsrv -I test -u p-humblet -p /bin/sh -a c:/testit <== use your name Enter password of user: Reenter, please: ~: cygrunsrv -S test cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: The service has not been started. <== don't worry about this 3) Look at the output ~: cat /var/log/test.log Alternatively run the following service, which tries to ls your HOME, cygrunsrv -I ls -u p-humblet -p /bin/ls -a $HOME Start it and look at /var/log/ls.log Note that it may make a difference if you specify your HOME as a drive (/cygdrive/h) or as a network path //computer/share. I have just tested at my work, where my Windows home is U: I cannot use it from a service. However I can use the expanded path (which is listed in /etc/passwd, and used as default by cron) You may want to try changing that before running the tests above. If the explanation holds, you have a choice between talking to your administrator or creating a HOME on a local disk. From there you may be able to access your real HOME with "net use ..." I have also noticed that your group is listed as mkpasswd-l-d. Thus the group and passwd file my not have been properly installed. Perhaps if they were, you would not need to specify HOME. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
