Cron problem/Documentation and Setup

Wed Aug 18 16:25:00 GMT 2004

On 2004年8月18日, Dave Korn wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> > Sent: 18 August 2004 16:54
>> > > > > 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
>> > 19 17 * * * ls >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
> > 20 17 * * * ls -l /tmp/myscript >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
>> I haven't been following, so PMFBI, but can I just point out that it may
> well be necessary that the 2>&1 should precede the >> /tmp/debug.log if you
> want stderr to actually end up in the log file....

Nope, that part was correct. If you put 2>&1 before the >> redirection, 
stderr will end up on stdout. See the sh and bash manpages.
> BTW, "uname -a; pwd; set; export" might be a good diagnostic command to
> add as a cron job.... isn't this almost certainly a
> wrong-user-executing-the-job problem?

Huh? "uname -a" should only be useful if there's more than one Cygwin 
version on the machine -- otherwise, the output should be identical for 
all users. "pwd" is already there. I don't see how "set;export;" is 
relevant at all, frankly... Did you, by chance, mean "id" instead?
	Igor
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