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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: Cron problem Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:17:57 -0500 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) In-Reply-To: OpenPGP: url=ldap://keyserver.pgp.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Orfeo Da Via wrote: [snip] > $ crontab -l > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/tmp/crontab.1200 installed on Fri Oct 7 18:26:04 2005) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41 corinna Exp $) > * 18 * * * /bin/date >> /usr/tmp/date.out 2>&1 man 5 crontab : The time and date fields are: field allowed values ----- -------------- minute 0-59 hour 0-23 day of month 0-31 month 0-12 (or names, see below) day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names) [snip] > > I wait wait wait, but the /usr/tmp directory is always empty ... Your crontab job will run every minute starting at 18:00. Keep waiting ;-) read a book... read the manual. -- R.Berber -- 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/