Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/22/15:03:36
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Ugh, top-posting. Reformatted.
>
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Ruzomberka, Mark wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 11:12 AM
>> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT XX DOT XXX DOT XXX]
>> Cc: cygwin AT XXXXXX DOT XXX
>
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks.
>
>>> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Ruzomberka, Mark wrote:
>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>>> I have checked my crontab file:
>>>>
>>>> [mark/tmp]:>crontab -l
>>>> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
>>>> # (/tmp/mruzomberka installed on Thu Jul 21 17:16:16 2005)
>>>> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41
>>>> corinna Exp $) 0 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 /dev/console
>>>> 10 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 /dev/console
>>>> 20 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 /dev/console
>>>> 30 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 /dev/console
>>>> 35 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 /dev/console
>>>> 40 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 /dev/console
>>>> 50 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 /dev/console
>>> ^^
>>> Someone else already noticed this, so I won't comment.
>>>
>>>> * * * * * date >> /tmp/date.txt[mark/tmp]:>
>>> ^^^^
>>> It's also a good idea to use full paths to utilities, as /bin
>>> (/usr/bin) may not be in the PATH. Try changing this to
>>> /usr/bin/date. HTH, Igor
>>
>> Wow! thanks for the quick response....but....no luck yet
>>
>> Here is my latest crontab file:
>>
>> [mark/tmp]:>crontab -l
>> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
>> # (/tmp/mruzomberka installed on Fri Jul 22 12:38:18 2005)
>> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41 corinna
>> Exp $) 0 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 >/dev/console
>> 10 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 >/dev/console
>> 20 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 >/dev/console
>> 30 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 >/dev/console
>> 35 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 >/dev/console
>> 40 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 >/dev/console
>> 50 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 >/dev/console
>> * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/date.txt
>>
>> I made the 3 changes suggested:
>> 1. Added the > in front of /dev/console
>> 2. Added a new line at the end of the file
>> 3. Added explict path to date
>>
>> However, no luck yet on cron executing any of these jobs.
>>
>> Here is the output of my cron.log file as requested:
>>
>> [mark/tmp]:>less /var/log/cron.log
>> [mark/tmp]:>ps -a
>> PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
>> 1592 1 1592 1592 ? 18 09:38:36
>> /bin/cygrunsrv 1708 1592 1708 1780 ? 18
>> 09:38:36 /usr/sbin/cron 2668 1 2668 2668 con
>> 17205 09:50:22 /bin/bash 2432 2668 2432 3260 con
>> 17205 12:40:10 /bin/ps [mark/tmp]:>less /var/log/cron.log
>> [2244] cron started
>> [2544] cron started
>> [1708] cron started
>>
>> I can see that process 1708 is started, and no errors are reported in
>> the log?
>
> Did you see my earlier response in which I suggested looking at the
> Windows Event log
> (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-07/msg01021.html>)?
>
>> Do I need to have the file date.txt already created? or will cron
>> create the file for me?
>
> If /tmp is writable, it should have no problem creating the file.
>
> BTW, here's what I think is your problem: from the attached
> cygcheck.out:
>
> Not Found: sh
>
> Your bash postinstall script didn't complete. Please stop all Cygwin
> processes (including cron) and reinstall the bash package. Reboot if
> setup asks you to. Igor
I reinstalled bash and the date file is now being written.
I think this solves my problems!
Sorry about the PCYMTNQREAIYR newbie mistake,and top posting.
I think I fixed Outlook so the problem will not happen again.
Thanks Again!
Mark
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