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Pierre A. Humblet explained :
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kevin Markle" 
> To: <cygwin>
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...
>
>
>> 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?
>
> I assume you used cron-config
> Does "ps -a" show cron running, and as the privileged user you created?
> How do you know the file doesn't run?
The service is running but the date on the file only changes when I 
manually run it?
>
>> 
>> 1       *       *       *       *       /time.bash > /dev/null 2>&1
>> 
>> In my reading I gathered that this was a way to get around intalling a 
>> mail client.
>
> It's surely safer to just put
> MAILTO=""
> in your cron file

At the top of the file before the 1st cron entry or?? Sorry apparently 
I must be cygwin stupid. I never had these problems with my crontab 
file on the Sun box i used before..
>
> Pierre




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