CRON running but not triggering tasks

[Juan Huerta <juan dot huerta at gmail dot com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to make CRON work with Cygwin. After intalling and checking
that CRON is running, I still cannot see the jobs running.

Some facts:

1) CRON was installed and apparently is running. This is the output of
cygcheck, cygrunsrv and ps.

$ cygcheck.exe -c | grep cron
cron                 4.1-59               OK

$ cygrunsrv -Q cron
Service             : cron
Current State       : Running
Controls Accepted   : Stop
Command             : /usr/sbin/cron -n

$ ps -lef | grep cron
  SYSTEM    3060    4656   ?  17:40:36 /usr/sbin/cron

2) $ cat /var/log/cron.log is empty.

3) Below are the tasks that I'm using for testing CRON. I'm trying to
figure whether is a matter of the path (Windows or Linux path). The
files don't exist in the tmp folders and none of them have been
created (which would verify that CRON is working)

$ crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.Z9LzbSHt8k installed on Thu Oct  6 15:55:42 2011)
# (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $)

* * * * *  /cygdrive/d/MyStuff/Work/Scripts/jls.sh >
/tmp/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.txt
* * * * *  /cygdrive/d/MyStuff/Work/Scripts/jecho.sh > /tmp/BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB.txt
* * * * *  D:\MyStuff\Work\Scripts\jls.sh > C:\temp\EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.txt
* * * * *  D:\MyStuff\Work\Scripts\jecho.sh > C:\temp\FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.txt
* * * * * /bin/echo "foobar" >> /tmp/CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC.txt
* * * * * /bin/echo "foobar" > /tmp/DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.txt
* * * * * wall test


1 * * * *  /cygdrive/d/MyStuff/Work/Scripts/jls.sh >
/tmp/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.txt
1 * * * *  /cygdrive/d/MyStuff/Work/Scripts/jecho.sh > /tmp/BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB.txt
1 * * * *  D:\MyStuff\Work\Scripts\jls.sh > C:\temp\EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.txt
1 * * * *  D:\MyStuff\Work\Scripts\jecho.sh > C:\temp\FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.txt
1 * * * * /bin/echo "foobar" >> /tmp/CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC.txt
1 * * * * /bin/echo "foobar" > /tmp/DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.txt
1 * * * * wall test

* * * * * id >>   /tmp/crontest.out
* * * * * date >> /tmp/crontest.out

4) Scripts folder permissions. Note that 2 of the tasks are executing
'/bin/echo' , and still, those tasks are not executed.
	20K d---------+ 1 jhuerta        None            0 Oct  6 15:43 Scripts

5) Tasks run properly when executed in the command line.

6) None of the tasks are being executed by CRON (no output in any of the files)

7) I start CRON as follows: cygrunsrv --stop cron && cygrunsrv
--remove cron && cygrunsrv --install cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -n &&
cygrunsrv --start cron


My questions are:

1) What logs can I look at?
2) Any thing wrong with the output of ps? Not sure what is the user
that 'owns' cron (SYSTEM    3060    4656   ?  17:40:36 /usr/sbin/cron)
3) What else can I check to know why the tasks are not running?

Thanks,

Juan

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