Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/10/28/20:47:00
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Robert Pollard wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This problem is driving me insane (I don't have far to go ;-).
> [snip]
> The problem:
> Cron will not execute every minute now. I have a scheduled task that does
> something like "* * * * * /bin/echo "Test" >/dev/null 1>/TestAct.log" It
> doesn't execute at all.
Exactly how do you know that it doesn't execute? I hope not by the lack
of output in /TestAct.log, because the above command will *never* write
anything to /TestAct.log... It should change the mod time on it, though.
:-)
> [snip]
> Usually, it reports to the system log and I can tell that it is at least
> trying to run every minute. It's very difficult to know what is
> happening since it doesn't report anything to the system log. If I run
> it from the command line I can't even see any logging activities at all.
> Looking into /var/log/cron.log only shows when it is started and
> stopped.
Did you check the Windows Event Log?
> BTW, the only way I can get an entry into the system log is to run
> crontab. It tries to reload the crontab entry. When it was under the
> domain user, I was able to see an entry in the system log every minute.
> Although, it wouldn't execute the scripts because it couldn't switch
> user context.
mkpasswd -d -u DomainUserName >> /etc/passwd
You may also need to do something for groups, e.g.,
mkgroup -d >> /etc/group
(WARNING: the above might take very long if your domain is large and has a
lot of groups).
> Thanks for any help you can give.
> -Robert Pollard
HTH,
Igor
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