Cron problem/Documentation and Setup

[Andrew DeFaria]

I'm having a problem with cron in this new environment. I cannot execute 
any of my own scripts in my ~/bin. I was also having problems executing 
even things in /tmp! So like a good little boy I decided to read the 
readme for cron again before asking here. Trouble is I have no cron readme!

I remember it was in /usr/doc/Cygwin but alas:

$ ls /usr/doc/cygwin
ctags-5.5.README*         openssl-0.9.7d.README*  whois-4.6.14-1.README*
ghostscript-7.05.README*  procps-010801.README*
mc-4.6.0.README*          rxvt-2.7.10.README*

So I figured "Oops, guess I didn't install all the documentation" and 
fired up setup.exe to download  from the internet. I use 
ftp://planetmirror.com and when I attempt to do that I get:

(null) line 1537: parse error, unexpected COMMA, expecting STRING
(null) line 1537: unrecognized line 1537 (do you have the latest setup?)
(null) line 1537: unrecognized line 1537 (do you have the latest setup?)
(null) line 1537: unrecognized line 1537 (do you have the latest setup?)

Problem is I *do* have the latest version of setup! I just downloaded it 
again to make sure. Same error. Tried mirrors.kernel.org - same error!

As for my cron problem I can execute rudimentary commands such as ls, 
pwd and redirect the output to /tmp/debug.log. From that I can see that 
pwd tells me that I'm in /var/cron. The script I want to execute is 
under ~/bin (which is on a network share). I copied that script to /tmp 
and insured that it was set 777. Then I performed the following cron jobs:

18 17 * * *     pwd >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
19 17 * * *     ls >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
20 17 * * *     ls -l /tmp/myscript >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
21 17 * * *     /tmp/myscript >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1

Here's the result:

/var/cron
tabs
-rwxrwxrwx    1 TPAD3741 Domain U     5201 Aug 17 17:15 /tmp/myscript

/tmp/myscript never get's executed.
-- 
Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check?


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