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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: Cron under Cygwin/Windows XP Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:51:55 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Morche Matthias" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Nov 2004 08:51:55.0911 (UTC) FILETIME=[33318970:01C4C570] X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id iA88qBXY026757 cygwin-owner@cygwin.com wrote: > Hi. > I'm attempting to run: > > $ crontab -l > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (cron/myCron installed on Fri Nov 5 14:08:06 2004) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna > Exp $) * * * * * echo 'Boo from cron' > > but it doesn't run... Just out of curiosity, how do You know it doesn't run? I would try something like "date >> /tmp/cron.test" and have a look into that file. matthias -- 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/