Similar Cron issue--Cron wont do anything

[Pierre A. Humblet]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LAU2" <>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: Similar Cron issue--Cron wont do anything
| 
| Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
| > 
| > 
| > ----- Original Message ----- 
| > From: "LAU2" 
| > To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
| > Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:26 AM
| > 

| > *********
| > Thanks. 
| > What you did with /etc/group looks wrong. If  I understand it correctly
| > you now have two lines in /etc/group with the same GID. I also notice
| > from cronbug.txt that the Users group does not display properly.
| > You may want to regenerate /etc/group, but none of the above explains
| > what we see with cron.
| > 
| > The cronbug file is now complete and your crontab exists.
| > Everything looks absolutely normal.
| > cron is running as yourself but can't setuid to yourself :(
| > 
| > Can you try the following:
| > 1) Stop the cron service (cygrunsrv -E cron)
| > 2) cd /usr/sbin
| > 3) Type "./cron -x sch,load" (without "")
| > 4) You will see immediate output, then a pause after "sec-to-wait=XXX"
| >     Let cron runs once after that, then kill it with ^C
| > Cut and paste the output and send it to us.
| > 
| > Thanks
| > 
| > Pierre
|******************
| 
| Below is the output. I also attached the cronbug file produced AFTER
| producing the output. The windows event log doesn't show that anything
| happened though. Normal?
| 
| ******OUTPUT**********
| 
| $ ./cron -x sch,load
| debug flags enabled: sch load
| [2388] cron started
| log_it: (CRON 2388) STARTUP (V5.0)
| [2388] load_database()
|        Landon: [done]
| unlinking old database:
| load_database is done
| [2388] GMToff=-10800
| [2388] Target time=1240519500, sec-to-wait=40
| [2388] tick(45,20,22,3,4)
| user [Landon:1002:513:...] cmd="sh create_dir_new.sh > /home/landon/logfile"
| [2388] load_database()
| [2388] spool dir mtime unch, no load needed.
| [2388] Target time=1240519560, sec-to-wait=60
| log_it: (Landon 3544) CMD (sh create_dir_new.sh > /home/landon/logfile)
| 
| ******************END**************

Thanks for trying.
The cronbug file is not attached :(
Looks like cron ran your command and didn't log anything special.
Did create_dir_new.sh do what you wanted?
Is /home/landon/logfile as you expect?

Pierre


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