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 17:24:28 -0400 Lines: 47 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 After serious thinking René Berber wrote : > Kevin Markle wrote: > >> 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 > > It's not clear if you used `crontab -e` or not? That command is the way to > add entries to your crontab, and if it doesn't run that means either cron is > not running (as a service) or there is a problem (probably logged in Windows' > event log). > >> In my reading I gathered that this was a way to get around intalling a >> mail client. > > Setting up cron to get around installing a mail client? Are you kidding? > mail clients (or servers) have nothing to do with cron; cron uses the server > (ssmtp or exim, whatever is symbolically linked to sendmail) to send > messages. This is the windows log? The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: /usr/sbin/cron: PID 5060: (kmarkle) MAIL (mailed 46 bytes of output but got status 0x0001 ). -- 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/