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 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: Chronic Cron - cyg.txt (0/1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:02:18 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Harig, Mark" To: "zzapper" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id hAOLSRJd025152 > > I'd created /etc/cron.d at some stage manually as a FILE . > > Have now deleted it and created it as a DIRECTORY. > > BINGO everything works > > (I don't know where that is on a stupidity scale, but maybe Mark could > add a test for this to his cron_diagnose.sh) > Thank you for the feedback. The cron_diagnose.sh script does check for /etc/cron.d, and does check to see that it is a directory with the proper permissions (a minimum of 'rx' for the owner). You might have an earlier version of the script? It reports its version when it is run. The latest version is 1.2. ---- -- 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/