Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com To: gerrit.haase@t-online.de Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ cron/crontab ] someone using cron on cygwin? References: <3AF21637.21160.1304FF5F@localhost> From: Adrian Phillips Date: 04 May 2001 09:56:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase"'s message of "Fri, 4 May 2001 02:38:47 +0200" Message-ID: <87elu54kep.fsf@grannyogg.localnet> Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>>>> "Gerrit" == Gerrit P Haase writes: [Disclaimer: I'm no cygwin expert so some of this may be innaccurate] Gerrit> Dear Corinna, $ crontab crontab: can't obtain passwd Gerrit> entry. Possibly because your /etc/passwd doesn't exist or has no entry for the user you are logged in as. Gerrit> I don't know how to use crontab. It depends upon the cron daemon which I don't believe is standard with cygwin (but I meybe wrong). I suggest you search the archives for cron to gain more info. Gerrit> Is it possible to create a crontabfile manually? How is Gerrit> the syntax? man 5 crontab describes the crontab format. man 1 crontab describes how to install your crontab in the system so that cron will use it. Again this is for a Unix system, for cygwin, check the archives. Sincerely, Adrian Phillips -- Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [OK] -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple