X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:59:20 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: lin q cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Help : can not get cron work In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, lin q wrote: > Hi, > I just installed a brand new cygwin on my WinXP machine, but I can not > get cron work for me. Here is how I did it: > > 1) "cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D" > > 2) "crontab -e" to edit the crontab file, here is the dump out, > $ crontab -l > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/tmp/crontab.2836 installed on Wed Jan 4 10:14:53 2006) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41 corinna Exp $) > 16 10 * * * linq rsync -azv emperor:/dev/tools/* /cygdrive/c/bin/tools > > 3) "cygrunsrv -S cron" > > If I go to "start" -->"Administritive tools" -->"service", I can see > that cron is started. > > I tried that command in crontab, "rsync -azv emperor:/dev/tools/* > /cygdrive/c/bin/tools", it works fine if i run it on shell manually. > > Any suggestion is highly appreciated. What makes you think cron doesn't work? Did you try adding the "Hello World" of crontabs, i.e., * * * * * linq /bin/date >> /tmp/date.out 2>&1 ? Did it work for you? As for your current problem... Does the cron log show anything? What about the Windows Event Log? Try fully qualifying the path rsync, quoting the '*', and redirecting both stdout and stderr to some file (you may also need to redirect stdin from /dev/null). HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/