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RE: piping problems with cron+4nt
- From: "Mironov, Leonid {PBG}" <Leonid dot Mironov at intl dot pepsi dot com>
- To: 'Rafael Kitover' <caelum at debian dot org>, 'cygwin-list' <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: "Mironov, Leonid {PBG}" <Leonid dot Mironov at intl dot pepsi dot com>
- Date: 2004年2月19日 09:57:08 +0300
- Subject: RE: piping problems with cron+4nt
Rafael Kitover wrote:
> Perhaps try using the cygstart utility, in conjunction with --hide?
>
Yes, it helped. Thanks a lot.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mironov, Leonid {PBG}
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 12:59 AM
>> Subject: piping problems with cron+4nt
>>
>> I've got a bunch of legacy 4NT batches I want to run from cygwin
>> cron. When run from 4NT started from bash these batches work fine
>> but when started from cron all lines with redirection and piping
>> fail, e.g. when I run
>>
>> dir>q
>>
>> file 'q' is not created,
>>
>> dir|sort
>>
>> starts sort and it sits and waits for keyboard input. Also output
>> from external programs is lost, e.g. if batch looks like
>>
>> echo zzz
>> zip zzz *
>> echo qqq
>>
>> and is run as
>>
>> 0 2 * * * 4NT.EXE /c
>> ibackup.btm>>h:\\backup\\bk.log
>>
>> file h:\backup\bk.log will look like
>>
>> zzz
>> qqq
>>
>> zip output is missing, although zip archive is created.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Win XP SP1, just refreshed cygwin and 4NT to latest bulds whith no
>> effect at all.
>>
>> :), Leo
:), Leo
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