Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	"Jeff Lu" <jklcom AT mindspring DOT com>
To:	"cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: How to set up crontab file in cygwin?
Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2002 18:56:23 -0800
Message-ID:	<LIEBJAJMJFLPHGCPMEBGEEAECJAA.jklcom@mindspring.com>
MIME-Version:	1.0
X-Priority:	3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority:	Normal
X-Mailer:	Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
X-MimeOLE:	Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700
In-Reply-To:	<13199208694.20020105203010@familiehaase.de>
Importance:	Normal

How can I check if my cron service is running?

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:gp AT familiehaase DOT de]
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 11:30 AM
To: Jeff Lu
Cc: Cygwin
Subject: Re: How to set up crontab file in cygwin?


Hallo Jeff,

Please keep Cygwin related discussion on the Cygwin list.

Am 2002-01-05 um 19:16 schriebst du:

> Can you show the steps in setting up the crontab file
> and the cron job?

usage:  crontab [-u user] file
        crontab [-u user] { -e | -l | -r }
                (default operation is replace, per 1003.2)
        -e      (edit user's crontab)
        -l      (list user's crontab)
        -r      (delete user's crontab)

I use always joe because I'm too stupid to learn the VI:
$ export EDITOR=joe
you may use also `vim' as editor.
Then run:
$ crontab -e

In joe I get existing crontabs and if there are none then
an empty file, first line in my files is always:
MAILTO=gp at familiehaase.de           # <---- your DOT real AT adress DOT here
and then the jobs:
0 0-23/4 * * * /usr/bin/updatedb

This means:
Run: /usr/bin/updatedb at 0:00, 4:00, 8:00, 12:00, 16:00, 20:00 o'clock,
every day of the month (say every four hours).

For details how to run a job every Monday to Friday but not Saturday and
Sunday look `man crontab' & `man 5 crontab' & `man cron'


The daemon itself is installed with cygrunsrv, see in the archives:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg01242.html


Gerrit
-- 
=^..^=                                        mailto:gp AT familiehaase DOT de


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -