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 Subject: cron ignores my settings To: "Cygwin Maillist" X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.5 September 22, 2000 Message-ID: From: "Devin McRorie" Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 08:54:12 -0400 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on scsirusntsh2/Servers/IRCorp(Release 5.0.5 |September 22, 2000) at 07/20/2001 08:59:59 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii HOP-COUNT: 1 X-MAILWATCH-INSTANCEID: 0102000abb74c60d-a44a-4a5d-bd82-72592876c0f3 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Jul 2001 13:00:46.0583 (UTC) FILETIME=[FDF90870:01C1111B] I'm having a devil of a time getting cron to do anything under cygwin. Is there a way to do diagnostics, or see cron error info or check how cron is setup to figure out why it isn't working? I am logged in as Administrator on a Windows 2000 machine. I use crontab -e to put in a task. The task is: 40 08 * * * /u/srcmail/sh/runmc Of course the header information is all about not editing the crontab file directly. I left that out since we've all seen it. I've even tried setting the runmc script with chmod +x which doesn't seem to do anything as ls still shows it has no execute privilege. Please note that the runmc script does execute and work properly when I call it manually! So the problem is probably with cron or the cygwin setup. I really appreciate your help! Devin McRorie ----------------------------- Devin McRorie Ingersoll-Rand Company devin_mcrorie@irco.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/