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Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID cdaf0f0b8393947eb7455a81600a4a4e; Wed, 24 May 2023 00:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <87bb1215-e594-aec3-8242-df1099b051b2@att.net> Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 20:32:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Subject: Re: cron: trying and totally failing to run a simple cron job - fixed (with comments) Content-Language: en-GB References: <58cf0c8a-9f49-fb2d-a2ff-f9985f69e157.ref@att.net> <58cf0c8a-9f49-fb2d-a2ff-f9985f69e157@att.net> <7018868f-be47-59bf-0174-8f32307579fc@Shaw.ca> To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Jonathan Clark In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.21495 mail.backend.jedi.jws.acl:role.jedi.acl.token.atz.jws.hermes.yahoo X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,FREEMAIL_FROM,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: I got this running. In the hope that it may help others, I give some details here. It turned out that I was on the right track - it *was* the space in my Windows username which was making cron complain. The simple addition of a (basically completely fake but plausible) MAILTO line in the crontab got past the UNSAFE and the cron job started working, more or less. Brian also mentioned that he used a MAILTO, which was helpful. Thanks! That was not quite the end of the story. With the cron job working, I went looking for the output. I couldn't use a real email address in the MAILTO because I don't know how to persuade sendmail to use the SMTP SUBMIT protocol (anyone?), but it took me some time to find the cron.log file, which was hiding in "/cygdrive/c/cygwin64/home/Jonathan Clark". I didn't even know that directory existed, so this was all terribly exciting. Setting HOME in the crontab to my "real" HOME (or at least somewhere I could remember to look) solved that problem. While poking around Vixie's source code I ran across this bug fix: https://github.com/vixie/cron/commit/690fc534c7316e2cf6ff16b8e83ba7734b5186d2 which I am fairly sure explains my observation of the delay in picking up a changed crontab. Anyway, thanks for the help! And thanks again to everyone for the work on cygwin. Jonathan