X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:date:message-id:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version; q=dns; s=default; b=Jd+ cRdI34g9mJEGn5tolez27npk1gbkcMFR3AOsotD1yIOSXuxyiafhokJJiJKA+GbT 2LnMsUJetH5quGQ5MeCGFAw8FG3KDJlC9fCjMJzy/suUR7EKbXEzgmraA5g1sM5T 6NaD7pytawTxD5Q1lPHZQvjs6/us7aCRkgaTp468= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:date:message-id:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version; s=default; bh=pOmwLscnU 48bSoaSV3tPhgADwDg=; b=eVh8k0VeITltc6m5aSCs6DEgV2n/V7mqKA4+kRhN0 6JHcFdK2c9PAKekM9IUT8DRoGD+vsZTB/uJP8XK/utKcCUK4roLdAvXCEpElLrhn ywyV3BMK77o597h/cL05FzGQvFMxBuIa4Kl2WziSS5WM5jaHF/1cTtNOeWpS8aHa Qw= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: nbfkord-smmo07.seg.att.com X-MXL-Hash: 523e412f7d953406-92943d6c95cd46e93fcaedc814320d80a56f5dfe From: "KARR, DAVID" To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Subject: Confused about several issues with setting up cron Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 01:00:02 +0000 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-RSA-Inspected: yes X-RSA-Classifications: public X-Spam: [F=0.2000000000; CM=0.500; S=0.200(2010122901)] X-MAIL-FROM: X-AnalysisOut: [v=2.0 cv=O8iOSmBW c=1 sm=0 a=srMsL6ituuWTYeky9Bs9mA==:17 a] X-AnalysisOut: [=YnP4VLJI-BoA:10 a=t29AYNv2XsYA:10 a=ofMgfj31e3cA:10 a=BLc] X-AnalysisOut: [eEmwcHowA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=zQP7CpKOAAAA:8 a=XIqpo32R] X-AnalysisOut: [AAAA:8 a=nx8KtvE8eYIA:10 a=Josljel-_wa_L-zCcOcA:9 a=CjuIK1] X-AnalysisOut: [q_8ugA:10] X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id r8M10jiZ013578 CYGWIN_NT-6.1 1.7.25(0.270/5/3) 2013-08-31 20:39 i686 Cygwin I want to set up a cron job, so I have to get cron configured. I'm trying to follow the instructions I can find, but I'm seeing several issues. I'm surprised that there's nothing in the user guide or the FAQ about setting up cron. I had to settle for the various questions about this on StackOverflow and others. I must have done something at least half correct, because I believe this tells me that cron is running: % cygrunsrv -L cron % cronevents 2013/09/20 21:14:06 [dk068x] crontab: PID 5924: (dk068x) LIST (dk068x) 2013/09/21 11:28:15 [dk068x] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 4980: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0) 2013/09/21 11:28:16 [dk068x] cron: PID 8424: `cron' service started However, I then do "crontab ", where "pathtomycrontabfile" is the path to my crontab file with the job I want to run. I then do "crontab -l" and it prints nothing. There is nothing in "/var/log/cron*". I did get some errors when I ran "cron-config", but I unfortunately lost that output. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple