Re: Cron only sees local HD mounts

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Han Yuan wrote:
> All,
>  
>  
> I'm on a windows XP pro based system.  I've been trying to get cron to
> run some scheduled scripts but it unfortunately only is able to
> recognize my locally mounted hds and not the network drives I have
> mapped (c and e are my local drives).
>  
> I have installed cron to run as a service as myself (instead of system).
> I've run all the various utilities, uninstalled, reinstalled several
> times:
>  
> cygrunsrv --stop cron
> cygrunsrv --remove cron
> cygrunsrv --install cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e CYGWIN="tty ntsec
> binmode" -u hyuan
> cygrunsrv --start cron


Why not use '/usr/bin/cron-config', so you're sure you're not running into
some basic config issue?


> I have also googled extensively.  At this point in time, I am at a
> complete loss.  Any help would be appreciated.  Could it be a
> permissions/group issue?  I cannot tell.  I ran cron_diagnose.sh 1.10
> and it said all was well.
>  
> Any wisdom that the group can provide would be MUCH appreciated.  I've
> spent at least 5 hours banging my head on this issue.


WJFFM.
What does '/var/log/cron.log' or Windows event log say?


> I've attached my cygcheck here:
>  


Actually, we call this *appending*.  Which much prefer *attaching* to
appending.  It makes for less false-positives when searching the archives
for info on a particular package, etc.


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