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From:	David Karr <davidmichaelkarr AT gmail DOT com>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jul 2019 12:56:43 -0700
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Subject:	Re: How to start and verify cron?
To:	Brian DOT Inglis AT systematicsw DOT ab DOT ca,
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It's curious that when I bring up the default "Packages" view, filtering
for "syslog-ng" doesn't find anything.  I had to switch to the Categories
view, and then filtering for that found it.

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 4:04 PM Brian Inglis <
Brian DOT Inglis AT systematicsw DOT ab DOT ca> wrote:

> 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
>
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