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 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 05:50:11 +0100 From: Elfyn McBratney X-X-Sender: elfyn@ellixia Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Linden=20Glen?= cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Using Cron? In-Reply-To: <20030721043712.3054.qmail@web20705.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20030721043712.3054.qmail@web20705.mail.yahoo.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by delorie.com id h6L4oOs22495 On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Linden Glen wrote: > Hi all, >   > Is there anywhere I can get some detailed > documentation about using Cron? ie. examples, > explanations, etc.... better than crontab --help >   > Also, if I setup a Cron job, does it require that the > server be logged in? or does it run as a service? >   > Any help would be greatly appreciated. A search on google for "crontab howto" or "crontab tutorial" will give you the answer to your first question. Cron can run as a service (on NT/200[03]/XP/) or started from the command line (in-case of 9x/Me it's the only way as the SCM is an NT'ism). A service run's in the background and does not require a user to be logged-in. For more, search the archives at . HTH, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB | http://www.nongnu.org/wwwauth/ http://www.emcb.co.uk | http://www.emcb.co.uk/webauth/ elfyn@emcb.co.uk | wwwauth-users AT nongnu DOT org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/