Crontab does not work, Windows 2000
Tim Ashman
wolfgang_mx3@hotmail.com
Fri Nov 21 22:39:00 GMT 2003
Igor,
I have looked through /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README like you suggested.
The only problem is that the cygrunsrv file does not exist on my computer.
I've done a thorough search. Do you have any idea why this happened? Is it
common and what should I do about it?
Thanks.
----Original Message Follows----
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
To: Tim Ashman <wolfgang_mx3@hotmail.com>
CC: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:59:54 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote:
> Igor,
>
> I did not run the cygrunsrv utility. I searched my hard drive and it does
> not exist. I just created a crontab under my username from the "crontab
-e"
> command. Is cygrunsrv a trivial part of running cron tasks?
Your cron service is not running. See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README.
> Also, I ran cron_diagnose and it is getting stuck on the mounts. I'm
pretty
> sure that the mounts are system mounts, not user.
>
> ->Part of my output after running the diagnose script:
>
> The SYSTEM user cannot access the mount point /usr/bin.
> Please run the following command to add a system mount point:
> mount -f -s -b "[DOS path to Cygwin]/bin" "/usr/bin"
> where [DOS path to Cygwin] is something like c:/cygwin.
>
> For more information, run 'mount -m' and 'mount -h'
>
> After adding this mount point, please re-run this script.
>
> ->My output after running mount -m:
>
> mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin"
> mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib"
> mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin" "/"
> mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/cygdrive"
>
> Should I run the command you suggested at:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg00486.html ?
No, I think you have a different problem. Looks like your SYSTEM user may
have user mounts that shadow the system ones. Try getting a SYSTEM-owned
shell and running "mount -m" from there. If you see any user mounts,
"umount -u" them.
Igor
> Hopefully we get this sorted out after this posting! :) Thanks
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> To: Tim Ashman <wolfgang_mx3@hotmail.com>
> CC: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000
> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:59:55 -0500 (EST)
>
> Tim,
>
> Umm, sorry, I meant just the underlined lines, but I guess no dice...
>
> Did you try running Mark Harig's cron_diagnose.sh (Google for it) on your
> system? Does it report any errors?
>
> Does the "date" example produce any messages in syslog (i.e., Windows
> Event log)? An obligatory silly question, BTW: did you start the cron
> service? What options did you pass to cygrunsrv to create the service?
> Igor
>
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote:
>
> > Igor,
> >
> > The output I displayed in my last posting was from the event log. It
> > is not what my script is supposed to output. My script uses the lynx
> > utility to download specific data files from an http site and echoes
> > some progress statements back to the shell. I have tried what you
> > suggested below and the "hello world" date crontab as well. Both do
> > not work. I have also tried different combinations of path (/bin and
> > /usr/bin) in my crontab, but still no luck. Note, I open a bash shell
> > from /bin/bash and write my crontab from there. Just a quick
> > sidetrack...why does the "pwd" command give /usr/bin when the shell
> > was opened in /bin?
> >
> > Any other ideas of what the problem could be? Do you think it's
> > path-related? Thank you so much...
> >
> > ----------------------
> >
> > Tim,
> >
> > Replies inline below.
> >
> > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote:
> >
> > > Igor
> > >
> > > I have attached the windows event log. Can you help? Thanks.
> > >
> > > Event Type: Information
> > > Event Source: ./crontab
> > > Event Category: None
> > > Event ID: 0
> > > Date: 11/18/2003
> > > Time: 10:37:29 AM
> > > User: ECPACIFIC\ashmant
> > > Computer: TAYLORBILL
> > > Description:
> > > The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( ./crontab ) cannot be
> > > found.
> > > The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or
> > > message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The
> > > following
> > > information is part of the event: ./crontab : PID 596 :
> > > (ashmant) LIST (ashmant).
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Isn't this what your script is supposed to output? Looks to me like
> > your crontab actually worked. If you don't redirect the output of
> > your script, it goes to syslog (which, in case of Cygwin, is the
> > Windows event log). Try changing your crontab entry to something like
> >
> > 33 12 * * * /usr/bin/bsh_ubcfxscript.txt >> /tmp/bsh_ubcfxscript.out
> >
> > and see if it works. In fact, did you try the "Hello, world!" of all
> > crontabs, i.e.
> >
> > 33 12 * * * /bin/date >> /tmp/date.out
> >
> > ? HTH,
> > Igor
> >
> > > ----Original Message Follows----
> > > From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
> > > Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > > To: Tim Ashman <wolfgang_mx3@hotmail.com>
> > > CC: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > > Subject: Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000
> > > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:00:32 -0500 (EST)
> > >
> > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote:
> > >
> > > >Crontab will not run on my Cygwin platform.
> > > >
> > > >I am using Cygwin 1.5.5 under Windows 2000 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4.
> > > >
> > > >I want to schedule some bash scripts using crontab. Each script
> > > >runs perfectly fine on its own. I created the following crontab
> > > >from the bash shell, located at /bin/bash:
> > > >
> > > > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> > > > # (/tmp/crontab.1904 installed on Wed Nov 19 12:32:06 2003)
> > > > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41
corinna Exp $)
> > > >
> > > > 33 12 * * * /usr/bin/bsh_ubcfxscript.txt
> > > >
> > > >When the time scheduled arrives, nothing happens. No error messages
> > > >occur and the script does not execute.
> > > >
> > > >cygcheck.out is attached
> > > >
> > > >Thank you.
> > >
> > > Did you check the Windows Event log?
> > > Igor
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