----- Original Message ----- From: "LAU2" <> To: <cygwin@cygwin.com> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 7:53 PM Subject: Re: Similar Cron issue--Cron wont do anything | | Pierre A. Humblet wrote: | > | > | > ----- Original Message ----- | > From: "LAU2" | > To: <cygwin@cygwin.com> | > Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:26 AM | >
| > ********* | > Thanks. | > What you did with /etc/group looks wrong. If I understand it correctly | > you now have two lines in /etc/group with the same GID. I also notice | > from cronbug.txt that the Users group does not display properly. | > You may want to regenerate /etc/group, but none of the above explains | > what we see with cron. | > | > The cronbug file is now complete and your crontab exists. | > Everything looks absolutely normal. | > cron is running as yourself but can't setuid to yourself :( | > | > Can you try the following: | > 1) Stop the cron service (cygrunsrv -E cron) | > 2) cd /usr/sbin | > 3) Type "./cron -x sch,load" (without "") | > 4) You will see immediate output, then a pause after "sec-to-wait=XXX" | > Let cron runs once after that, then kill it with ^C | > Cut and paste the output and send it to us. | > | > Thanks | > | > Pierre |****************** | | Below is the output. I also attached the cronbug file produced AFTER | producing the output. The windows event log doesn't show that anything | happened though. Normal? | | ******OUTPUT********** | | $ ./cron -x sch,load | debug flags enabled: sch load | [2388] cron started | log_it: (CRON 2388) STARTUP (V5.0) | [2388] load_database() | Landon: [done] | unlinking old database: | load_database is done | [2388] GMToff=-10800 | [2388] Target time=1240519500, sec-to-wait=40 | [2388] tick(45,20,22,3,4) | user [Landon:1002:513:...] cmd="sh create_dir_new.sh > /home/landon/logfile" | [2388] load_database() | [2388] spool dir mtime unch, no load needed. | [2388] Target time=1240519560, sec-to-wait=60 | log_it: (Landon 3544) CMD (sh create_dir_new.sh > /home/landon/logfile) | | ******************END************** Thanks for trying. The cronbug file is not attached :( Looks like cron ran your command and didn't log anything special. Did create_dir_new.sh do what you wanted? Is /home/landon/logfile as you expect? 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/