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-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "BB" Subject: Re: cron on Win9x works Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:18:41 -0500 Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: "BB" X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 "Luciano" wrote in message news:Xns935AE4A876607lucianoavgmxnet@80.91.224.249... > I read it again, but I am not sure I understand it. The hack proposed > by BB him/herself him > > rm -R -f /var/cron/tabs.sav > cp -R /var/cron/tabs /var/cron/tabs.sav > rm -R -f /var/cron/tabs > mv /var/cron/tabs.sav /var/cron/tabs cron compares the timestamp of it's 'old' database of tasks to the timestamp of the /var/corn/tabs directory. Assuming the all 4 steps (rm, cp, rm, mv) worked, the newly created /var/cron/tabs should have a new timestamp. Make sure it is getting changed to a new time. If a directory already exists when a mv is done to it, the directory will not get a new timestamp. For instance, if for some reason the third step removing the /var/cron/tabs directory fails, the last step mv will not update the timestamp. I would think that this kludge should not be a long term solution. A change to cron should fix this problem. Also, beware that if you are doing the 4 steps and the tabs directory does not exist when cron checks for it, cron will terminate. BB > > doesn't work here. Cron still skips tasks. I also tried touch'ing the > tab file, but it didn't work either. Elusive. > > Luciano ES > Santos, SP - Brasil > > ******************************** > Igor Pechtchanski wrote in > news:Pine.GSO.4.44.0304112049570.26381-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu: > > > Please reread the message. Cron doesn't detect changes to > > /var/cron/tabs, so you have to make sure the timestamp changes > > before cron will run new commands. > > Igor > > -- 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/