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Subject: Re: [ cron/crontab ] someone using cron on cygwin?
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From: Adrian Phillips <adrianp AT powertech DOT no>
Date: 04 May 2001 09:56:30 +0200
In-Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase"'s message of "Fri, 4 May 2001 02:38:47 +0200"
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>>>>> "Gerrit" == Gerrit P Haase <gerrit DOT haase AT t-online DOT de> writes:

[Disclaimer: I'm no cygwin expert so some of this may be innaccurate]

    Gerrit> Dear Corinna, $ crontab crontab: can't obtain passwd
    Gerrit> entry.

Possibly because your /etc/passwd doesn't exist or has no entry for
the user you are logged in as.

    Gerrit> I don't know how to use crontab.

It depends upon the cron daemon which I don't believe is standard with
cygwin (but I meybe wrong). I suggest you search the archives for cron
to gain more info.

    Gerrit> Is it possible to create a crontabfile manually?  How is
    Gerrit> the syntax?

man 5 crontab describes the crontab format. man 1 crontab describes
how to install your crontab in the system so that cron will use it. Again this is for a Unix system, for cygwin, check the archives.

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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