Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/11/20/14:04:41
Igor
I have attached the windows event log. Can you help? Thanks.
Event Type: Information
Event Source: ./crontab
Event Category: None
Event ID: 0
Date: 11/18/2003
Time: 10:37:29 AM
User: ECPACIFIC\ashmant
Computer: TAYLORBILL
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( ./crontab ) cannot be found.
The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or
message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following
information is part of the event: ./crontab : PID 596 : (ashmant) LIST
(ashmant).
----Original Message Follows----
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Tim Ashman <wolfgang_mx3 AT hotmail DOT com>
CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:00:32 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote:
>Crontab will not run on my Cygwin platform.
>
>I am using Cygwin 1.5.5 under Windows 2000 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4.
>
>I want to schedule some bash scripts using crontab. Each script runs
>perfectly fine on its own. I created the following crontab from the bash
>shell, located at /bin/bash:
>
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.1904 installed on Wed Nov 19 12:32:06 2003)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp
>$)
>
> 33 12 * * * /usr/bin/bsh_ubcfxscript.txt
>
>When the time scheduled arrives, nothing happens. No error messages occur
>and the script does not execute.
>
>cygcheck.out is attached
>
>Thank you.
Did you check the Windows Event log?
Igor
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