* cron problems finally resolved
@ 2003-09-26 15:43 Øyvind Harboe
2003-09-26 15:54 ` Igor Pechtchanski
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From: Øyvind Harboe @ 2003-09-26 15:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
After much knashing of teeth, I've finally figured out
what made my cron scripts fail:
In a normal shell, the /usr/bin is in at the front of
the $PATH.
When cron runs as a cygrunsrv service /usr/bin is at the
end of the $PATH.
In my case, I had a Windows version of "tar" that being executed
instead of CygWins "tar", but only when run from within cron
as a service.
My workaround was to launch the subcript in question via "bash":
bash --login -i -c "sh /cygdrive/c/foo/backup.sh"
This is not the first time I've run into $PATH problems between
Windows and CygWin. Something to look out for.
Ãyvind
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* Re: cron problems finally resolved
2003-09-26 15:43 cron problems finally resolved Øyvind Harboe
@ 2003-09-26 15:54 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-09-26 16:50 ` SV: " Øyvind Harboe
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From: Igor Pechtchanski @ 2003-09-26 15:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Øyvind Harboe; +Cc: cygwin
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Ãyvind Harboe wrote:
> After much knashing of teeth, I've finally figured out
> what made my cron scripts fail:
>
> In a normal shell, the /usr/bin is in at the front of
> the $PATH.
>
> When cron runs as a cygrunsrv service /usr/bin is at the
> end of the $PATH.
>
> In my case, I had a Windows version of "tar" that being executed
> instead of CygWins "tar", but only when run from within cron
> as a service.
>
> My workaround was to launch the subcript in question via "bash":
>
> bash --login -i -c "sh /cygdrive/c/foo/backup.sh"
>
>
> This is not the first time I've run into $PATH problems between
> Windows and CygWin. Something to look out for.
>
> Ãyvind
Ãyvind,
FWIW, you don't have to invoke "sh" since you're already invoking bash,
i.e., you could change your invocation to
bash --login -i -c "cygdrive/c/foo/backup.sh"
(or even without a -c)... Take a look at the "-e" option to cygrunsrv --
it might help. Also, the following thread might be of interest:
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01633.html>.
Igor
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* SV: cron problems finally resolved
2003-09-26 15:54 ` Igor Pechtchanski
@ 2003-09-26 16:50 ` Øyvind Harboe
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From: Øyvind Harboe @ 2003-09-26 16:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
>Take a look at the "-e" option to cygrunsrv --
>it might help.
I find it a bit unnerving that I test my scripts under
bash and then deploy them under a different environment
that I do not properly understand.
By using the "bash" trick in the last post, I was hoping
to more precisely copy the environment under which I
tested my scripts.
From the thread you referred to, it seems like "bash"
is the way to go for me, rather than "cygrunsrv -e".
Ãyvind
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