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From: Vince Hoffman <Vince DOT Hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com>
To: "'Buck Turgidson'" <jc_va AT hotmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Cron Won't Run Jobs
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:05:34 -0000 
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Moer info would be good. (cygcheck as an attachment is always a good start
:) 
does monsql pop up a window ? (services that interact with the desktop need
spacial permission) 
try adding a line like 
* * * * * /usr/bin/touch /tmp/crond_running
to your crontab and see if that works,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buck Turgidson [mailto:jc_va AT hotmail DOT com]
> Sent: 05 December 2002 13:51
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Cron Won't Run Jobs
> 
> 
> I installed CYGWIN yesterday, and am having trouble getting 
> cron to work.
> My cron job, set to run every minute, does not execute.
> 
> I have read through the archives, and below is relevant data.
> 
> I would appreciate any advice on what to try next
> 
> 
> chmod 1777 /var/cron
> chmod 1777 /var/cron/tabs
> 
> cygrunsrv -E cron
> cygrunsrv -R cron
> cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e "CYGWIN=tty ntsec"
> cygrunsrv -S cron
> 
> 
> This is what the process list looks like:
> 
> /var/cron > ps -ef
>      UID     PID    PPID TTY     STIME COMMAND
>   buck       395       1 con  08:36:06 /usr/bin/bash
>   SYSTEM     392       1   ?  08:40:54 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
>   SYSTEM     350     392   ?  08:40:54 /usr/sbin/cron
>   buck        63     395 con  08:48:11 /usr/bin/ps
> 
> 
> This is /etc/group
> 
> /var/cron > cat /etc/group
> SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
> None:S-1-5-21-926890155-1422859606-844764980-513:513:
> Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544:
> Backup Operators:S-1-5-32-551:551:
> Guests:S-1-5-32-546:546:
> Power Users:S-1-5-32-547:547:
> Replicator:S-1-5-32-552:552:
> Users:S-1-5-32-545:545:
> /var/cron >
> 
> 
> 
> This is my cronjob
> 
> /var/cron > crontab -l
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.312 installed on Thu Dec  5 08:39:21 2002)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.6 2001/09/19 17:09:55 
> corinna Exp $)
> */1 * * * *  monsql
> /var/cron >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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