Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/01/28/19:40:41
This is my cron file
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.1800 installed on Mon Jan 28 19:02:13 2002)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.3 2001/06/07 17:12:28 corinna Exp $)
SHELL=/bin/sh
0-59/2 * * * * /c/progra~1/apache~1/apache/cgi-bin/print
I installed and started the service but nothing is happening!
cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
cygrunsrv -S cron
It's supposed to execute print every 30 seconds.
How do I check if the cron is really running?
Thanks
-----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
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