On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 03:56, Colin Jenkins wrote:
> Hello Jack,
> 
> Friday, December 27, 2002, 3:11:36 PM, you wrote:
> of people is going to get upset
> 
> >> > 
> >> > usually this sort of error is due to differing environment or
> >> > permissions. If it's a user's crontab ($crontab -e) then you need to su
> >> > to that user and debug from there. If it's root's crontab (#vi
> >> > /etc/crontab) then make sure root can run it from command line.
> >> > 
> >> > Another possibility is that the network is fine when you're debugging,
> >> > but congested by other traffic when your cron job runs. Try doing
> >> > something less sensitive to network issues, like rsync'ing to a temp
> >> > directory a couple of times, then tar'ing that temp directory to the
> >> > tape.
> >> >
> >>
> this is really starting to bug me,
> I tried  the script below, runs from command line or clicking on icon,
> but when run as cron job (as root) , it copies 2.9Mb and stops. there
> are no errors in cron logs. AFIK it's not a network problem as no one else was
> using it.
> Unless I'm missing something obvious, it must be a bug with cron.

I have trouble imagining that, but samba not acting like I expected is a
daily occurrence :-)

> I have tried the same with 2 different networks, with the same
> results. I'm using samba 2.2.6 on mdk9 with all the latest updates
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> cp -rpuv /mnt/windows /mnt/hal

Anything in the logs? Griping from the NIC driver or filesystem or
shorewall? Permissions on NTFS should throw an error via smbmount, I
would think... it would certainly produce an error in the Windows
security log.

actually, humor me -- try removing the u flag from your copy statement
and see what that does.

-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...


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