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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <000f01c21d46$60ab7200$0dcbfea9@emcbfsserv> Reply-To: "Elfyn McBratney" From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "Cygwin ML" , Subject: Very annoying problem with cron Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 20:19:20 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Hi, I have cron installed as a service and it works fine, the only thing that does'nt work is the crontab editory `crontab -e`. If i want to install the new crontab i have to cp or mv it to the tabs dir which is quite annoying because im working on a system crontab that keeps on changing. I have installed the snapshots from yesterday '20020625' and today '20020626' but they don't fix the problems with crontab. Here's all my sysinfo: Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Wed Jun 26 20:24:15 2002 Windows 2000 Server Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Path: D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin D:\vol0\home\cygwin\usr\local\bin D:\vol0\home\cygwin\root\bin SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32 WinDir: C:\WINNT CYGWIN = `ntsec ntea tty' HOME = `D:\vol0\home\cygwin\root' MAKE_MODE = `unix' PWD = `/root' USER = `admin' Use `-r' to scan registry a: fd N/A N/A c: hd NTFS 8001Mb 22% CP CS UN PA FC d: hd NTFS 20614Mb 32% CP CS UN PA FC e: cd N/A N/A f: cd N/A N/A D:\vol0\home\cygwin / system binmode D:\vol0\home\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system binmode D:\vol0\home\cygwin/lib /usr/lib system binmode D:\vol0 /vol0 system binmode . /cygdrive user binmode,cygdrive Found: D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\bash.exe Found: D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cat.exe Found: D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe Found: D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\find.exe Found: D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe Found: D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe Found: D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\ld.exe Found: D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\ls.exe Found: D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\make.exe Found: D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\sh.exe 58k 2002/05/07 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygbz2-1.dll 54k 2002/01/27 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygbz21.0.dll 6k 2002/06/24 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygcharset-1.dll 621k 2002/05/17 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygcrypto.dll 111k 2002/06/13 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygcurl-2.dll 326k 2002/06/18 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygdb2.dll 106k 2002/06/12 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygexpat-0.dll 50k 2002/03/17 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygexslt-0.dll 45k 2001/04/25 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll 35k 2002/01/09 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygform6.dll 19k 2002/02/20 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll 17k 2001/06/28 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll 20k 2002/01/13 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cyghistory5.dll 929k 2002/06/24 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll 22k 2001/12/13 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygintl-1.dll 23k 2002/06/24 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygintl-2.dll 21k 2001/06/20 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygintl.dll 81k 2000/12/05 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygitcl30.dll 35k 2000/12/05 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygitk30.dll 45k 2002/02/08 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygjbig1.dll 119k 2002/02/09 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygjpeg6b.dll 25k 2002/05/08 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygltdl-3.dll 26k 2001/04/25 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll 20k 2002/01/09 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygmenu6.dll 156k 2001/04/25 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll 175k 2002/01/09 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++6.dll 226k 2001/04/25 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll 202k 2002/01/09 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygncurses6.dll 15k 2001/04/25 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll 12k 2002/01/09 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygpanel6.dll 40k 2001/11/21 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygpcre.dll 39k 2001/11/21 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygpcreposix.dll 171k 2002/05/07 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygpng10.dll 175k 2002/05/24 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygpng12.dll 170k 2002/01/21 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygpng2.dll 22k 2002/06/09 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygpopt-0.dll 108k 2001/06/28 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll 121k 2002/01/13 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygreadline5.dll 66k 2001/11/20 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygregex.dll 156k 2002/05/17 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygssl.dll 390k 2000/12/05 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygtcl80.dll 5k 2000/12/05 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygtclpip80.dll 10k 2000/12/05 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygtclreg80.dll 253k 2002/02/10 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygtiff3.dll 623k 2000/12/05 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygtk80.dll 1248k 2002/03/17 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygxml2-2.dll 152k 2002/03/17 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygxslt-1.dll 15k 2002/03/17 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygxsltbreakpoint-1.dll 50k 2002/03/12 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll 874k 2002/06/24 D:\vol0\home\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.3.11 DLL epoch: 19 DLL bad signal mask: 19005 DLL old termios: 5 DLL malloc env: 28 API major: 0 API minor: 53 Shared data: 3 DLL identifier: cygwin1 Mount registry: 2 Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions Cygwin registry name: Cygwin Program options name: Program Options Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix Cygdrive default prefix: Build date: Sun Jun 23 22:31:15 EDT 2002 CVS tag: cygwin-1-3-11-3 Shared id: cygwin1S3 Cygwin Package Information Package Version _update-info-dir 00011-1 ash 20020131-1 autoconf 2.53-1 autoconf-devel 2.53a-1 autoconf-stable 2.13-4 automake 1.6a-1 automake-devel 1.6.1-3 automake-stable 1.4p5-5 bash 2.05a-3 bc 1.06-1 binutils 20011002-1 bison 1.35-1 byacc 1.9-1 bzip2 1.0.2-2 ccache 1.9-1 clear 1.0-1 compface 1.4-5 cpio 2.4.2 cron 3.0.1-6 crypt 1.0-1 ctags 5.2-1 curl 7.9.8-1 cvs 1.11.0-1 cygrunsrv 0.95-1 cygutils 1.1.1-1 cygwin 1.3.11-3 cygwin-doc 1.0-1 db2 2.7.7-3 dejagnu 20010117-1 diff 1.0-1 diffutils 2.8.1-1 ed 0.2-1 enscript 1.6.3-2 expat 1.95.3-2 expect 20010117-1 fetchmail 5.9.12-1 figlet 2.2-1 file 3.37-1 fileutils 4.1-1 findutils 4.1.7-4 flex 2.5.4-2 gawk 3.0.4-1 gcc 2.95.3-5 gdb 20010428-3 gdbm 1.8.0-4 gettext 0.11.2-2 gettext-devel 0.11.2-2 ghostscript 6.51-4 gnupg 1.0.7-1 gperf 0.0 grep 2.5-1 groff 1.17.2-1 gsl 1.1.1-1 gzip 1.3.2-1 indent 2.2.8-1 inetutils 1.3.2-17 irc 20010101-1 jbigkit 1.2-6 jpeg 6b-7 keychain 1.8-1 less 374-1 libbz2_0 1.0.2-1 libbz2_1 1.0.2-2 libcharset1 1.8-2 libdb2 2.7.7-3 libdb2-devel 2.7.7-3 libiconv 1.8-2 libiconv2 1.8-2 libintl 0.10.38-3 libintl1 0.10.40-1 libintl2 0.11.2-2 libncurses5 5.2-1 libncurses6 5.2-8 libpng 1.2.3-1 libpng10 1.0.13-3 libpng10-devel 1.0.13-3 libpng12 1.2.3-1 libpng12-devel 1.2.3-1 libpng2 1.0.12-1 libpopt0 1.6.4-4 libreadline4 4.1-2 libreadline5 4.2a-1 libtool 20020202a-1 libtool-devel 20020502-2 libtool-stable 1.4.2-2 libxml2 2.4.17-1 libxslt 1.0.13-1 links 0.96-1 login 1.4-3 lynx 2.8.4-1 m4 0.0 make 3.79.1-7 man 1.5g-2 mingw-runtime 2.0-2 mktemp 1.4-1 more 2.11o-1 mt 2.0.1-1 mutt 1.2.5i-6 nano 1.0.7-1 ncftp 3.1.3-1 ncurses 5.2-8 newlib-man 20001118-1 opengl 1.1.0-6 openssh 3.3p1-2 openssl 0.9.6d-1 openssl-devel 0.9.6d-1 patch 2.5-3 pcre 3.7-1 perl 5.6.1-2 pine 4.44-1 pkgconfig 0.12.0-1 popt 1.6.4-4 procmail 3.22-6 python 2.2.1-1 rcs 5.7-3 readline 4.2a-1 regex 4.4-2 rsync 2.5.5-1 rxvt 2.7.2-10 sed 3.02-1 sh-utils 2.0-2 sharutils 4.2.1-2 shutdown 1.2-2 squid 2.4.STABLE6-1 ssmtp 2.38.7-3 swig 1.3.11-1 tar 1.13.19-1 tcltk 20001125-1 termcap 20020403-1 terminfo 5.2-3 tetex-beta 20001218-4 texinfo 4.2-3 texmf 20000804-2 texmf-base 20000804-2 texmf-doc 20000804-2 texmf-extra 20000804-2 texmf-tiny 20000804-2 textutils 2.0.21-1 tidy 020623-1 tiff 3.5.7-1 time 1.7-1 ttcp 19980512-1 ucl 1.01-1 units 1.77-1 unzip 5.50-1 upx 1.21-1 vim 6.1-2 w32api 1.5-1 wget 1.8.1-1 which 1.5-1 whois 4.5.17-1 zip 2.3-2 zlib 1.1.4-1 Elfyn McBratney elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk _____________________________________________- Exposure Internet/Intranet Systems Administrator http://www.exposure.org.uk This e-mail is private 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