Thanks. I did look at the FAQ s'. I haven't seen any of these specifics. I'm trying to scp files through cygwin cron (running on windows 2000) to Linux(redhat 72 kernal 2.4.7-10). And I'm running linux on pIII. The open_ssh version on Linux is OpenSSH_2.9p2. And I run sshd on linux on ports 9989 through 9999 (i'm not using the default port 22). The version on Cygwin is OpenSSH_3.4p1. I don't think the problem is with ssh/scp. Because it works fine on cygwin, and I'm able to scp files without giving passphrases (but using dsa public/private keys). But scp itself is not working through cygwin cron. I have done the following to install and start: $cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D $cygrunsrv -S cron Did the following on permission: $ chmod 1777 /var/cron $ chmod 1777 /var/cron/tabs Cron is running : (see below) $ ps -ef|grep cron SYSTEM 536 1336 ? 10:24:55 /usr/sbin/cron Attaching the output for cygcheck -r -s -v Please let me know if you need anything more. Thanks, Smithesh. -----Original Message----- From: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com [mailto:lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com] Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 3:21 PM To: smithesh@ticketmaster.com; maharig@idirect.net; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: cygwin cron I'm afraid that what you've provided only tells us what you're doing and how you're doing it. Unfortunately, we don't know anything else about your system or your setup. Make sure you've reviewed the email archives for cron issues and resolutions and that you've reviewed the cron and login READMEs (at least) as well as the user guide (particularly the stuff on permissions if you're running NT/W2K/XP). Oh, and a review of the FAQ may be worthwhile as well. You never know what tid-bits are lurking in the answers to even seemingly unrelated questions. If you don't find something useful in all that which resolves your problem, please provide the output of cygcheck -s -r -v as an attachment as well as the steps you took to configure cron to the list. Someone may be able to spot your problem given that. Good luck, Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: Smithesh Ramachandran smithesh@ticketmaster.com Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:53:12 -0700 To: maharig@idirect.net, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: cygwin cron Hi , I'm trying to scp (without pass phrases) using dsa on cygwin cron. scp works fine, but not within cron. this is what I'm doing - crontab -e 00 * * * * /usr/bin/perl /home/admin/perl/test.pl >> /tmp/test.txt and this is what test.pl has: #!/usr/bin/perl system('scp -P 9989 -oProtocol=2 -r /cygdrive/b/IN smithesh@172.26.20.34:tmp/.'); When I run test.pl by itself on cygwin command line, it works (meaning it does the scp), but not within cron. Also tried putting scp stmt itself within cron and didn't work either. I also tried removing, installing, stopping and starting cron using cygrunsrv. cron in general works, but is not doing the above scp stuff. I'm not sure if I'm doing anything wrong.. Help.. Thanks, Smithesh. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .