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From:	Vince Hoffman <Vince DOT Hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com>
To:	Vince Hoffman <Vince DOT Hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com>,
	"'Jarrod Hermer'"
	<jarrod AT mybeat DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc:	"'Elfyn McBratney'" <elfyn AT cygwin DOT com>,
	"'Harig, Mark'"
	<maharig AT idirect DOT net>
Subject:	RE: Problems with cron - Almost there
Date:	Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:01:46 +0100
MIME-Version:	1.0

Doh sorry thats 
*/5 * * * * "command"



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:Vince DOT Hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com]
> Sent: 02 July 2003 12:56
> To: 'Jarrod Hermer'; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Cc: 'Elfyn McBratney'; 'Harig, Mark'
> Subject: RE: Problems with cron - Almost there
> 
> 
> I think the format for every 5 minutes is 
> /5 * * * * touch /tmp/test.file
> 
> read man 5 crontab rathe than just man crontab.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jarrod Hermer [mailto:jarrod AT mybeat DOT net]
> > Sent: 02 July 2003 12:51
> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Cc: 'Elfyn McBratney'; 'Harig, Mark'
> > Subject: RE: Problems with cron - Almost there
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for the help, that seemed to solve my problem.
> > 
> > Now I seem to be stumped by a simple problem. I have read 
> all the cron
> > and crontab man pages but still cannot seemed to get my job 
> > to run every
> > 5 minuts. The following causes the hello.txt file to be 
> > generated every
> > minute:
> > 
> > * * * * * echo "Hello World" > /home/Jarrod/hello.txt
> > 
> > So I would expect this to be execute every 5 minutes. It 
> however seems
> > to only run at 5 minutes past every hour.
> > 
> > 5 * * * * echo "Hello World" > /home/Jarrod/hello.txt
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jarrod
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harig, Mark [mailto:maharig AT idirect DOT net] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:45 AM
> > To: Jarrod Hermer
> > Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: RE: Problems with cron
> > 
> > From your cygcheck text, here are some of your mount
> > points:
> > 
> > C:\cygwin      /          user    binmode
> > C:\cygwin/bin  /usr/bin   user    binmode
> > C:\cygwin/lib  /usr/lib   user    binmode
> > 
> > These likely need to be 'system' mount points instead of
> > 'user' mount points.  This situation probably came about
> > if you selected setup.exe's "Install For" option "Just Me"
> > instead of "All Users".  Please run the attached updated 
> > cron_diagnose.sh script to see if it helps with your
> > problem.
> > 
> > 
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