RE: cron in cygwin

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Mark,
>
> The solution you propose is quite drastic and unnecessary.  The problem
> you mention has to do with the Cygwin mounts being user, rather than
> system, mounts.  First of all, there is a simple way to reset those
> without re-running setup.exe and/or reinstalling Cygwin, by using
> something like
>
> eval "`mount -m | sed -e 's/ -u / -s /g' -e 's/$/;'`"
>
> (the above is for the archives).

Oops, that's not much good for the archives, is it? *blush*
Here's the correct one:

eval "`mount -m | sed -e 's/ -u / -s /g' -e 's/$/;/'`"

Sorry about that.
	Igor

> On Fri, 9 May 2003, Harig, Mark A. wrote:
>
> > There once was an obscure problem related to how
> > the Cygwin packages were installed.  If you selected
> > install 'Just Me' this problem occurred, but
> > if you selected install 'All Users', it did not.
> > The problem was somewhere in the registry settings.
> >
> > The fact that you have installed Cygwin on 'D:'
> > instead of the customary 'C:' drive made me think
> > of this.  Here are some steps you can try:
> >
> >    1. Re-run 'setup.exe', and select 'All Users'
> >       if you haven't already.  Run 'setup.exe'
> >       through to its conclusion, and then attempt
> >       to run cron.
> >
> >    2. If that doesn't work, then consider
> >       uninstalling Cygwin and reinstalling it
> >       on your D: drive, but being careful to
> >       select 'All Users'.
> >
> >    3. If that doesn't work, then consider
> >       uninstalling Cygwin and reinstalling it
> >       on your C: drive, again being careful to
> >       select 'All Users'.

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