Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:16:45 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53t) Business Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <41-2119364165.20020129211645@familiehaase.de> To: "Jeff Lu" CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: About cygwin cron In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hallo Jeff, Am 2002-01-29 um 21:46 schriebst du: > Sorry to have to send you this email. I tried cygwin AT cygwin DOT com but not > getting answer. Please try harder then;) Do you know 'how to ask smart questions' from ESR? E.g. 'About cygwin cron' is not the best subject. Also there are about 20-30 threads about cron in the archives... > I just want to set up a cron job to execute "print1" every 30 seconds Ok. > Here's what is in my cron file c:\cygwin\var\cron\tabs\Jeff: > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/tmp/crontab.1964 installed on Tue Jan 29 11:03:41 2002) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.3 2001/06/07 17:12:28 corinna Exp $) > 0-59/120 * * * * print1 ^^^^^^^^^ use an absolute path here, e.g /usr/local/bin/print1 > I installed and started it using > cygrunsrv -I jeff -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D Try: cygrunsrv -I jeff -p /usr/sbin/cron -a '-D' -e CYGWIN=ntsec > cygrunsrv -S jeff > But print1 is not getting executed. What kinda program is it? E.g. a shell script needs to start with: #!/bin/bash and you can also try to call it with the correct interpreter in crontab file: 0-59/120 * * * * /bin/bash.exe /path/print1 > What am I missing? How can I check if the cron is really running? Eventlog or Taskmanager, on Win98 there are several systemtools, but I don't know which you can use there, I use NT only. Gerrit -- =^..^= mailto:gp AT familiehaase DOT de -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/