Re: Cygwin problem with cron and networked drives

On 29 Jun 2006 11:53:36 -0700, ambroze <ambroze@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah, I figured that I was possibly in the wrong group. AGAIN, I cannot
find a group for CYGWIN. I appreciate your attempt to help but if
someone doesn't know anything about the emulator I'm using please don't
reply - especially with comments referring to that fact that I'm in the
wrong group or that I'm not providing enough information. Let me try to
explain again.

I am using CYGWIN (UNIX emulator) installed on a XP machine (for some:
don't say anything about installing a 'real' operating system -
b/c this is what I have to work with) and I have cron installed and
running as a service under my local user account. I have access
permissions to all of the mapped drives. CYGWIN can see the mapped
drives from the command line. BUT, when I run a script that needs one
of the mapped drives that is being called from cron, it cannot find the
mapped drives. This is a problem at my work (where I need it) and we're
on a large network and the same problem exists on my home PC with a
mapped drive to another PC in my home.

Please if you know nothing about CYGWIN, please do not reply. I'm
getting tried of a bunch of smart asses that like to act superior over
others. Just don't click that reply button. Thanks!

The place to look for answers to this is on the Cygwin mailing list.
You can just read the archives:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/
or search it using the search function on that page. When I enter
"cron" in the search field the first one I get is titled:
"Cron only sees local HD mounts"
which is your problem.

You can find out about all the Cygwin mailing lists at:
http://cygwin.com/lists.html

You can join the mailing list, but it's high volume.

A person who asks for more info is not a smart ass. If you had
said that you were running Cugwin under WinXP, I would have told
you about the mailing lists without asking any questions.

--
Dale Dellutri <ddelQQQlutr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (lose the Q's)
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