Re: Using cron with network share

2010-06-22 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: > On 6/22/2010 2:20 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote: >> >> I did finally get it to work by using the UNC path. I had thought that it >> was >> always preferable to use a unix-style path, particularly since cygwin now >> warns about using W32-st

Re: Using cron with network share

2010-06-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 6/22/2010 2:20 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote: I did finally get it to work by using the UNC path. I had thought that it was always preferable to use a unix-style path, particularly since cygwin now warns about using W32-style paths. If you're talking about using '\' as the path separator, yes, it

Re: Using cron with network share

2010-06-22 Thread Oren Cheyette
I did finally get it to work by using the UNC path. I had thought that it was always preferable to use a unix-style path, particularly since cygwin now warns about using W32-style paths. Thanks very much for the help. Re: Fw: Using cron with network share * From: "Larry

Re: Fw: Using cron with network share

2010-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 22 10:37, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" > To: cygwin > Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 22:06 > > > | On 6/21/2010 2:08 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote: > | > ** apologies about the bad formatting in the earlier reply ** > | > > | > Well, I apol

Re: Fw: Using cron with network share

2010-06-22 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" To: cygwin Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 22:06 | On 6/21/2010 2:08 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote: | > ** apologies about the bad formatting in the earlier reply ** | > | > Well, I apologize for being dense, but I'm not getting it. I read the | >

Re: Fw: Using cron with network share

2010-06-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 6/21/2010 2:08 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote: ** apologies about the bad formatting in the earlier reply ** Well, I apologize for being dense, but I'm not getting it. I read the document you link to quite a few times before posting my query. OK, I didn't know that. I initially tried running the

Fw: Using cron with network share

2010-06-21 Thread Oren Cheyette
** apologies about the bad formatting in the earlier reply ** Well, I apologize for being dense, but I'm not getting it. I read the document you link to quite a few times before posting my query. I initially tried running the service under my own account (as suggested in the faq) with my username

Re: Using cron with network share

2010-06-21 Thread Oren Cheyette
Well, I apologize for being dense, but I'm not getting it. I read the document you link to quite a few times before posting my query. I initially tried running the service under my own account (as suggested in the faq) with my username & password entered at prompts from cron-config. No luck. Th

Re: Using cron with network share

2010-06-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 6/21/2010 11:31 AM, Oren Cheyette wrote: I am having difficulty getting cron tasks to recognize network share paths. Running cygwin dll version 1.7.3, I have a system fstab (/etc/fstab) mounting a network share. Seems to work fine from an interactive shell. cron has been installed with cron-co