X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Usage Of Cron and AT commands Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:24:20 +0100 Message-ID: <00ab01c6c2b8$da0bb850$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: 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 18 August 2006 12:01, sujit.menon@tcs.com wrote: > Hi CygWinners, > I would like to know the syntax of crontab, cron and at commands for > its use in task scheduling. "man cron" "man crontab" 'at' is a windows command using the windows task scheduler. It's more straightforward to use cron with cygwin. > Also, can we do a Cron or AT job using Cygwin installation? Yes. Cron is preferable in this situation to at, as mentioned above. > If yes, please tell me the procedure... How do we allow permission's > for the cron job. What file needs to modified to add the user id. Simple: 1. Read the docs. /usr/share/doc/cron has the generic cron documentation, even more importantly /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README has the cygwin specific stuff. 2. Use the supplied script /bin/cron-config to set it up correctly. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/