Crontab runs fine in cmd line not via CRON for expect scripts

[John-Mc]

Hi All,

I'm new here so please bear with me. I have a server running Windows Server 2003 Std Edition w/ SP2 and for whatever reason I cannot get CRON to execute my expect scripts. If I run them manually they run just fine. Another co-worker has some perl scripts that kick off without any issues, can someone tell me why Cygwin won't execute them. I'm including a copy of crontab below, Thanks!

$ crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.2Y63xGCfwf installed on Wed Aug 29 13:58:48 2007)
# (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $)
#* * * * * /bin/date.exe >> /cygdrive/e/Downloads/out.txt
#* * * * * /bin/date.exe >> /home/Administrator/file.txt
0 * * * * /bin/perl.exe /home/Administrator/scripts/get-switchportnamesv2.pl
0 * * * * /bin/perl.exe /home/Administrator/scripts/regenswitchcfgs.pl
30 6 * * * /bin/perl.exe /home/Administrator/scripts/backupmrtg.pl
59 13 * * * /bin/expect.exe /home/Administrator/scripts/getCOREFWSMcfgs
59 13 * * * /home/Administrator/scripts/getASAcfgs
35 3 * * * /home/Administrator/scripts/getCOREcfgs
40 3 * * * /home/Administrator/scripts/getDISTcfgs
45 3 * * * /home/Administrator/scripts/getNCcfgs
50 3 * * * /home/Administrator/scripts/getPOEcfgs
55 3 * * * /home/Administrator/scripts/getVOIPcfgs
15 4 * * * /bin/perl.exe /home/Administrator/scripts/backup-rtr-sw-cfgs.pl
30 5 * * * /bin/perl.exe /home/Administrator/scripts/rtr-sw-cfg-2-dirs.pl

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

John-Mc wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm new here so please bear with me. I have a server running Windows Server
> 2003 Std Edition w/ SP2 and for whatever reason I cannot get CRON to execute
> my expect scripts. If I run them manually they run just fine. Another
> co-worker has some perl scripts that kick off without any issues, can
> someone tell me why Cygwin won't execute them. I'm including a copy of
> crontab below, Thanks!

Typically when scripts run fine from the command line and not from 'cron',
it's because they explicitly or implicitly depend on some environment
settings (i.e. variables) that aren't available when 'cron' runs.  The
typical solution is to make sure that you include those environment settings
in your scripts or your crontab.  FWIW, this is not a Cygwin specific issue.
The same thing would happen to you running the script from 'cron' on other
platforms.  So if you find that this is indeed your problem, you may want
to review the man pages for 'cron' and/or other 'cron' documentation.

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