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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:54:21 +0800
From: Greg Matheson <lang AT ms DOT chinmin DOT edu DOT tw>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cron: proving operator error
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In-Reply-To: <3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955950600@EX-LONDON>; from Vince.Hoffman@uk.circle.com on Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:10:26 +0100

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Vince Hoffman wrote:

> > Can anyone suggest a simple program to test cron works?

> The easiest test is just to "touch" a file and check it is a) created and b)
> its modification time is changed each time the cron job should run. (do it
> in /tmp or somewhere else with full permissions to everyone.)

That's it!

	mr_bean AT AFLD-SERVER ~
	$ ls -l /tmp/testfile
	ls: /tmp/testfile: No such file or directory

	mr_bean AT AFLD-SERVER ~
	$ !!
	ls -l /tmp/testfile
	-rw-rw-rw-    1 mr_bean  None            0 Aug 14 18:52 /tmp/testfile

	mr_bean AT AFLD-SERVER ~
	$ !!
	ls -l /tmp/testfile
	-rw-rw-rw-    1 mr_bean  None            0 Aug 14 18:53 /tmp/testfile

I must have spent about 7 hours on the documentation and tweaking
/etc/passwd, thinking something was wrong with cron. Oh well, I
guess I learned a lot about Windows 2000 ;-)

Now to see what's wrong with my FTP and SSMTP programs.

Thanks.

-- 
Greg Matheson                Failure: What happens when the irresistible
Chinmin College              force meets the immovable object.
                                 
Taiwan Penpals Archive <URL: http://netcity.hinet.net/kurage>

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