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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:48:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Eric De La Cruz Lugo <eric_delacruz AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional
To: "Harig, Mark A." <maharig AT idirect DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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--- "Harig, Mark A." <maharig AT idirect DOT net> wrote:
> It appears as though everything is set correctly.
> 
> Try:
> 
>    1. Shut down your cron service.

Done.

>    2. Run Cygwin's setup.exe to uninstall 'cron'.

Done.

>    3. Run setup.exe a second time to
> download/install
>       a new copy of 'cron'.

Done.

>    4. Reboot your computer.

Done.

>    5. Check your crontab: crontab -l

Done it shows:

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and
reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.1036 installed on Fri Dec  6 13:04:23
2002)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.6 2001/09/19
17:09:55 corinna Exp $)
* * * * * /usr/sbin/date >> /tmp/date.txt


>    6. Install the cron service and start it.

cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e
"CYGWIN=tty ntsec"

cygrunserv -S cron

ps -e shows:

      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID   
STIME COMMAND
     1560       1    1560       1560  con 1000
17:35:32 /usr/bin/bash
     1420       1    1420       1420    ?   18
17:36:52 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
     1384    1420    1420       1132    ?   18
17:36:52 /usr/sbin/cron
     1040    1560    1040       1648  con 1000
17:45:21 /usr/bin/ps


waited for 8 minutes and checked /tmp....guess what???

NOTHING! there is no output yet :( no "date.txt"

anything else? other aproach to this problem?


> 

Eric De La Cruz Lugo
Merida Yucatan, Mexico.

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