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Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:55:29 -0400
From:	"Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
Subject:	Re: Cron is running but jobs are not being executed
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Reply-to:	"Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
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Ruzomberka, Mark wrote

> 50 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 /dev/console
> *  * * * * date >> /tmp/date.txt[mark/tmp]:>
>
> It is my understanding of the crontab file that I should be getting "WAKE UP" statements printed to my screen every
ten minutes.

The messages will be written to the console of the cron process.
Because it is started as a service, I am not sure there is one,
or what it would be.

Did you check the Windows event log?

Pierre



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