Re: help cron cygwin

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Christian Lanconelli (servizio) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> CRON can run commands wrote in fortran containing the call system()
> statement?
> this is my program : trasf_DOS.f
> It write a DOS batch file that is immediately run by the 'call system
> ("copio.bat")' statement-
> It WORK WELL in the bash shell (cygwin because I use the DOS commands xcopy)
> but can't run as a cron scheduled job.
> Both trasf_DOS.exe, and copio.bat, are in the $PATH.
>
> 1) IT WORKS NORMALLY:
> Administrator@ragas /cygdrive/c/cvi/ICARO/dati
> $ ./trasf_DOS.exe  <Carriage Return>
>
> sab 07/01/2006
>  Prima della trasformazione: 7 1 2006
>  Dopo la trasformazione: 6 1 6
>  === Copio i file lanciando il batch appena creato ===
> c:\cvi\ICARO\dati>xcopy c:\cvi\ICARO\dati\??060106.*  \\pc27\CO2_O3\ /D /F
> /Z
> C:\cvi\ICARO\dati\DD060106.GAS -> \\pc27\CO2_O3\DD060106.GAS
> C:\cvi\ICARO\dati\DD060106.MET -> \\pc27\CO2_O3\DD060106.MET
> C:\cvi\ICARO\dati\DD060106.RAD -> \\pc27\CO2_O3\DD060106.RAD
> C:\cvi\ICARO\dati\MN060106.DEU -> \\pc27\CO2_O3\MN060106.DEU
> C:\cvi\ICARO\dati\MN060106.GAS -> \\pc27\CO2_O3\MN060106.GAS
> C:\cvi\ICARO\dati\MN060106.MET -> \\pc27\CO2_O3\MN060106.MET
> C:\cvi\ICARO\dati\MN060106.RAD -> \\pc27\CO2_O3\MN060106.RAD
> 7 File copiati
>
> (end of trasf_DOS.exe)
>
> 2) IT IS IN THE PATH
> Administrator@ragas /cygdrive/c/cvi/ICARO/dati
> $ echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygd
> rive
> /c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/VXIPNP/WinNT/Bin:/cygdrive/c/cvi/icaro/dati
>
> 3) Here are the crontab -l output:
> Administrator@ragas /cygdrive/c/cvi/ICARO/dati
> $ crontab -l
> 40 * * * * trasf_DOS.exe;echo "tab eseguito alle
> $(date)">/home/Administrator/cronlog
>
> The file "cronlog" is regularly updated. But trasf_DOS appears not work!
>
> Can you help me? What's my error?

It's a common cron misconception that occurs across all platforms on
which it runs.  The fact that a script runs when logged in but not in cron
suggests that it is a path issue.  Don't assume the path is right.  Don't
assume that things cron runs will have exactly the same environment you
have on the command line.  Write defensively scripts/apps that cron will run.
In this case, providing the fully qualified path to your executable and
copio.bat when they are invoked should help.  Keep in mind as well that
Cygwin compiled programs are going to invoke Cygwin's system(), not Windows,
and that .bat files aren't going to be interpreted properly by any Cygwin
shell.  So you'll probably want to invoke a fully qualified "command.com"
or "cmd.exe" as part of your system() call, depending on your target platform.


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