Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/07/12/11:30:03
Kyle Johnson wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm having some problems with cron & crontab in cygwin, running on
> Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Service Pack 4.
>
> What: I have two cronjobs setup, running at a 3 hour difference. The
> first job runs at 7PM, Monday through Friday, and tar -cjPf's .DBF files
> in a certain directory. The next script runs at 10PM, Monday through
> Friday, and tar -cjPf's * files in a certain directory. These were
> working OK for a few days, then they stopped. I noticed this when I
> checked on the backups the following day, and found that all of the
> recently made files were only 42b big, as opposed to 128MB or such.
>
> If I run the contents of the scripts from the command line, everything
> works OK.
>
> I have pasted all relevant information at http://paste.fixertec.net/5
>
> Also, today, I ran 'crontab -e' from the command line, and I got the
> error from lines 30 to 34, at http://paste.fixertec.net/5.
> I then ran 'net stop cron' and 'net start cron', which then allowed me
> to do a 'crontab -e' successfully.
>
> Any ideas?
Sure.
1. Install, read the README, and run rebaseall.
2. Try a snapshot <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>.
3. Follow the problem reporting guidelines if one of the 2 options above
doesn't fix your problem <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.
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