X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Kevin Markle Subject: Re: Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server... Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:45:43 -0400 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <45F9AB2D.3090704@cygwin.com> Reply-To: kmarkle@pbs.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Larry Hall (Cygwin) explained on 3/15/2007 : > Kevin Markle wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm attempting to install cron on a Windows 2003 machine and am somewhat >> Unix challanged. Is there a documented procedure that works somewhere. It >> seems that there are tons of posts out relating to this but they all seem >> to offer different information. :o) I was wondering if anybody has had any >> luck actually getting cron to work on a w3k machine. If possible I would >> like to run the service with a Network login if not a local admin would >> work... > > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README I used that and it worked I have installed the service as a network user | logged in as that user and created this crontab file but it doesn't run. The file runs okay from command prompt but not from the crontab file? 1 * * * * /time.bash > /dev/null 2>&1 In my reading I gathered that this was a way to get around intalling a mail client. -- 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/