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Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 09:33:10 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cron v3.0.1-5 setup issue w/ Cygwin v1.3.6
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On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 08:25:54PM -0600, Craig Rees wrote:
> Hey Corinna,
> 
> Thanks for the tip. Once I started redireting stdout and stderr everything 
> seems to work and email event log messages went away.
> 
> # Test CRON tab from CraigR
> * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> $HOME/date.log 2>&1
> * * * * * echo "Hello from CRON" >> /tmp/echo.log 2>&1
> * * * * * touch $HOME/touch.log
> 
> However, I am still getting Event log messages, one per crontab process with 
> 
> every run

That's correct.  Cron logs all started commands.

> and now my Event log is full.

Change your Event log settings.

Corinna

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