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Re: Cron & file owner issues
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: James Butenhoff <jpb at uhc dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 22:55:39 -0400
- Subject: Re: Cron & file owner issues
At 11:20 AM 6/25/2002, James Butenhoff wrote:
>Howdy!
>
>I am just trying out Cygwin. I am running it under NT4(SP6?). I
>am running "CYGWIN_NT-4.0 6049FHGZD817 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25
>11:14 i686 unknown" per the uname command. I would like to use cron
>to manage some work and am having difficulties getting it going.
>
>I have installed cygrunsrv V0.95 and cron (3.0.1-6?). Used the suggested
>cmd, `cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D`, to add the process
>to NT's services. Configured service to run as SYSTEM. NT task manager
>shows the service running. Cygwin's ps command also shows the cron
>process:
>
>jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: ~> ps -aef
> UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND
> SYSTEM 214 1 ? Jun 24 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
> SYSTEM 363 214 ? Jun 24 /usr/sbin/cron
> jbutenh 375 1 con 09:22:40 /usr/bin/tcsh
> jbutenh 269 375 con 09:22:44 /usr/bin/ps
>jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: ~> ps -ael
> PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
> 214 1 214 214 ? 18 Jun 24 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
> 363 214 214 359 ? 18 Jun 24 /usr/sbin/cron
> 375 1 375 108 con 1003 09:22:40 /usr/bin/tcsh
> 370 375 370 96 con 1003 09:22:56 /usr/bin/ps
>
>I have created a simple cron test job:
>jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: ~> crontab -l
># DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
># (/tmp/crontab.121 installed on Tue Jun 25 09:26:46 2002)
># (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.6 2001/09/19 17:09:55 corinna Exp $)
>* * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/mydate
>jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: ~>
>
>But the crontab I have entered does not execute properly. :-(
>I suspect there is a permissions issue, but stumbled into another
>issue trying to eliminate that possibility. Follow these cmds:
>
>jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: /tmp> ls -l mydate
>-rw-r--r-- 1 jbutenh None 27 Jun 18 10:37 mydate
>jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: /tmp> chmod -v 666 mydate
>mode of `mydate' changed to 0666 (rw-rw-rw-)
>jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: /tmp> chgrp -v Everyone mydate
>changed group of `mydate' to Everyone
>jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: /tmp> ls -l mydate
>-rw-r--r-- 1 jbutenh None 27 Jun 18 10:37 mydate
>jbutenh@6049FHGZD817[0]: /tmp>
>
>This is on my local hard disk which has a NTFS file system.
>Do these things not work in NTFS, or do I have something
>misconfigured? Can you offer any suggestions?
Why doesn't chmod work?
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC45
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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