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Date: | Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:25:39 -0400 (EDT) |
From: | William Sutton <william AT trilug DOT org> |
To: | "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org> |
cc: | Ting Zhou <tzhou AT guardiananalytics DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: cron does not do anything |
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Did you check that your cron job line is formatted correctly? If your line is literally of the form /usr/bin/touch /tmp/abcd then it definitely won't run because it is incorrectly written. William Sutton On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ting Zhou" <> > To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> > > > I'd like to report a bug with Vixie cron. I have cygwin installed with cron option. And I ran > "cron-config" and set up everything. Cron-diagnose script didn't find any problem. Cron service > was also started without problem. However, cron just wouldn't run the simple command I set up in > the crontab "/usr/bin/touch /tmp/abcd". > **************** > Hi, > > On your system you have syslog running, instead of using the Windows event log. > That's fine, except that your syslog configuration now controls how the cron log messages > are handled. The current "cronbug" script is not smart enough to figure that out > and does not provide enough info to help you (everything looks normal to me) > > Please send us in attachment the file containing the cron logs (if they are kept). > If it's very long, use "fgrep -i cron" to isolate relevant lines. > Alternatively, stop both syslog and cron, then restart cron only, run the cronbug script > again and send us the output. > > Pierre > > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
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