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> >The last message seems to indicate the cause of the problem. What's the >output of "ls -ld /etc/cron.d"? > Igor, I'd created /etc/cron.d at some stage manually as a FILE . Have now deleted it and created it as a DIRECTORY. BINGO everything works (I don't know where that is on a stupidity scale, but maybe Mark could add a test for this to his cron_diagnose.sh) In any case Thanx Very Much!!! BTW here's a very simple crontab (write pwd to pwd.txt every minute) for test purposes. * * * * * pwd >> /tmp/pwd.txt ANYWAY CYGWIN CRON DOES WORK on WINXP HOME, so if you read this 'cos you're struggling with cron. Don't be too dis-heartened you will get there. BTW this is what you need $ cygrunsrv --stop cron $ cygrunsrv --remove cron $ cygrunsrv --install cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D $ cygrunsrv --start cron If all goes well you can see cron in the Windows Services tool in Control Panel. zzapper -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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