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Subject: | Re: How to start and verify cron? |
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From: | Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca> |
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Date: | Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:04:14 -0600 |
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On 2019-07-10 16:15, David Karr wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:20 AM Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2019-07-10 10:55, David Karr wrote: > > I've checked the user guide and the FAQ, and I can't find any information > > about how to start cron and verify that it's working. I found other blog > > posts on other sites, but some of them are old. > > Did you run service setup script /bin/cron-config to set up the service? > When I ran that now, it says "Cron is already installed as a service under > account ...", so I assume that means that I did. > > I had installed cron, and I thought it was working, but now I think that it > > is not. If I edit "~/crontab" and then run "crontab -l", it lists the > > changes I've made to jobs, so at least that is working. The real job I > > have didn't appear to be doing what it was supposed to be doing, so I added > > a new trivial job that just appends output from "date" to a file in my > > homedir, and after the scheduled time of the job, the file was not created. > > Messages from cron and other active services should be visible in the Windows > application event log if you have not set up a syslog service. > I went through it, but I didn't see any indications of issues with cron. I'm > not sure what to look for, or where in the event log interface. > > This is the additional job I added: > > > >   40,42,44 * * * * date >> /home/<myuid>/date.txt > > > > I did find a "/var/log/cron.log", but it is empty, and the modtime is from > > a few months ago. > > > > One blog post I found talks about running "cygrunsrv -I cron -p > > /usr/sbin/cron -a -D". I just did this, and it reports "The specified > > service already exists." > > > > This is my uname -a output: > > > >   CYGWIN_NT-6.1 ... 3.0.3(0.338/5/3) 2019-03-09 19:12 x86_64 Cygwi > For a more Unix like and self contained Cygwin approach, install syslog-ng, run > service setup scripts /bin/cygserver-config /bin/syslog-ng-config > /bin/cron-config, add service dependencies to start up in that order, and you > should see cron messages in /var/log/syslog if you run elevated: you can also > run chmod elevated to make /var/log/syslog world readable, or setfacl to add > user or group read ACLs. > How do I add service dependencies to start up in a particular order? In an elevated cmd or bash shell: elevated > OR # sc config syslog-ng depend= cygserver elevated > OR # sc config cron depend= syslog-ng/cygserver N.B. the "=" is part of each keyword; multiple service dependencies are separated by "/". -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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