On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Øyvind Harboe wrote: > After much knashing of teeth, I've finally figured out > what made my cron scripts fail: > > In a normal shell, the /usr/bin is in at the front of > the $PATH. > > When cron runs as a cygrunsrv service /usr/bin is at the > end of the $PATH. > > In my case, I had a Windows version of "tar" that being executed > instead of CygWins "tar", but only when run from within cron > as a service. > > My workaround was to launch the subcript in question via "bash": > > bash --login -i -c "sh /cygdrive/c/foo/backup.sh" > > > This is not the first time I've run into $PATH problems between > Windows and CygWin. Something to look out for. > > Øyvind
Øyvind, FWIW, you don't have to invoke "sh" since you're already invoking bash, i.e., you could change your invocation to bash --login -i -c "cygdrive/c/foo/backup.sh" (or even without a -c)... Take a look at the "-e" option to cygrunsrv -- it might help. Also, the following thread might be of interest: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01633.html>. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
