Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Originating-IP: [65.193.99.4] From: "Buck Turgidson" To: Subject: Cron Won't Run Jobs Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 08:51:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Dec 2002 13:50:53.0669 (UTC) FILETIME=[541E3150:01C29C65] I installed CYGWIN yesterday, and am having trouble getting cron to work. My cron job, set to run every minute, does not execute. I have read through the archives, and below is relevant data. I would appreciate any advice on what to try next chmod 1777 /var/cron chmod 1777 /var/cron/tabs cygrunsrv -E cron cygrunsrv -R cron cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e "CYGWIN=tty ntsec" cygrunsrv -S cron This is what the process list looks like: /var/cron > ps -ef UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND buck 395 1 con 08:36:06 /usr/bin/bash SYSTEM 392 1 ? 08:40:54 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv SYSTEM 350 392 ? 08:40:54 /usr/sbin/cron buck 63 395 con 08:48:11 /usr/bin/ps This is /etc/group /var/cron > cat /etc/group SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18: None:S-1-5-21-926890155-1422859606-844764980-513:513: Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544: Backup Operators:S-1-5-32-551:551: Guests:S-1-5-32-546:546: Power Users:S-1-5-32-547:547: Replicator:S-1-5-32-552:552: Users:S-1-5-32-545:545: /var/cron > This is my cronjob /var/cron > crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.312 installed on Thu Dec 5 08:39:21 2002) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.6 2001/09/19 17:09:55 corinna Exp $) */1 * * * * monsql /var/cron > -- 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/