Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/10/10/03:34:26
Hi Igor,
> We can't tell you where you are wrong until you tell us what you mean by
> cron "not working"... Does the crontab fail to execute correctly (i.e.,
> every minute after 10:00?
first I'm sorry for my poor English...
in order to explain you what I mean when I wrote "cron does't work",
I try with the same command in my linux box (debian sid)
$ uname
Linux
$ export VISUAL=zile
$ crontab -e
...edit the file..
$ crontab -l
* 8 * * * /bin/date >> /home/calox/tmp/date.out 2>&1
$ date
Mon Oct 10 08:48:36 CEST 2005
$ ls -l /home/calox/temp
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 calox calox 180 Oct 10 08:54 date.out
$ cat tmp/date.out
Mon Oct 10 08:49:01 CEST 2005
Mon Oct 10 08:50:01 CEST 2005
Mon Oct 10 08:51:01 CEST 2005
Mon Oct 10 08:52:01 CEST 2005
Mon Oct 10 08:53:01 CEST 2005
Mon Oct 10 08:54:01 CEST 2005
for me, in this example, cron "works", i.e. in ~/tmp directory I found
the file date.out. In cygwin, with the same crontab, the ~/tmp dir is
empty.
> I think, besides fixing the above typo, reading "man 5 crontab" would be
> helpful.
Well, I read the man, the README in Paul Vixie source code, and
cron.README but I didn't find where it's teh problem..
> HTH,
> Igor
> --
> http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
> |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu
> ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com
> |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
> '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow!
>
> If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity
> of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA
--
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/
- Raw text -