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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:16:45 +0100
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To: "Jeff Lu" <jklcom AT mindspring DOT com>
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Subject: Re: About cygwin cron
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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
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