X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4437F8A1.3010107@cygwin.com> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 13:53:37 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Fedora/1.5-0.2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cron does not work References: <44374103.10301@theeggbeater.net> In-Reply-To: <44374103.10301@theeggbeater.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 User Waldo wrote: > I thought I had everything setup correctly to run cron jobs. > > I can not get anything I put in crontab -e to run. > > I've attached my cygcheck.out. If someone can give me some ideas I > would much appreciate it. It's always important to say *how* something doesn't work for you when you're having problems. Making people guess what the problem is tends to be a quick route to the email trash bin. Here's an idea. Try the following: * * * * * /bin/echo "hello world" >/tmp/out If that doesn't work, provide some details. From what I can tell, your configuration looks OK. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/