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="us-ascii" Subject: RE: cron.hourly Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:01:25 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Reid Thompson" To: "Reid Thompson" , "Totte Karlsson" , X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j3FJ1mPn031192 Reid Thompson wrote: > Totte Karlsson wrote: >> Hi, >> I have started cron as a service under Windows 2000. I 'naively' >> created a directory, /etc/cron.hourly and put a script in there. I >> had hoped that cron would execute the script once every hour but it >> does not work. >> >> How do I get the folders /etc/cron.hourly, etc/cron.daily >> etc/cron.weekly correctly working in cygwin? regards -totte > > $ cat exampleCronFile > #* * * * * command to be executed > #- - - - - > #| | | | | > #| | | | +----- day of week (1 - 7) (monday = 1) > #| | | +------- month (1 - 12) > #| | +--------- day of month (1 - 31) > #| +----------- hour (0 - 23) > #+------------- min (0 - 59) > > 05 15 5 2 * /path/to/executable >/path/to/logfile cron hourly 00 * * * * /path/to/executable >/path/to/logfile will run at the top of each hour 30 * * * * /path/to/executable >/path/to/logfile will run at the bottom of each hour etc... reid -- 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/