X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: Cron Problems Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:35:34 -0500 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <44C53D94.7010705@awmi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: <44C53D94.7010705@awmi.net> OpenPGP: url=hkp://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Andrew King wrote: > Before I get started, please note that I'm a complete Cygwin newbie, so > try to bear with me. >=20 > We had Cron running on a system to check the integrity of our backups, > but the drive went out. We had a backup of the drive before it went > out. My boss now wants me to make the Cron run again from the backup of > the Cygwin directory, and I've never worked with Cygwin in my life. So > I really don't know what I'm doing. I tried running "cygrunsrv -I Cron > -p /bin/crontab.exe" to install the service. The service installs, but [snip] Wrong, the service is not installed that way. Read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README first, then uninstall the mess you d= id with "cygrunsrv -R Cron" before you install it again. Second, you should really learn about how to use cron. The documentation o= f the installed cron can be seen with "man cron", "man crontab", "man 5 crontab".= Any documentation from the Web could also be useful. --=20 Ren=E9 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/