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: <006001c2c294$3c1e6b10$a77286d9@webdev> From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" , "Wu Yongwei" References: <3E2F65D1 DOT 8080406 AT netstd DOT com> Subject: Re: Cron Problems Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 04:02:18 -0000 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 V6.00.2800.1106 > Thanks. However, where can I find the options of cron? Now I only find > some info in /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README, but only in the ChangeLog > section, which I ignored on the first reading! There are only two options you can pass to cron. 1) -D (got the meaning wrong the last time; Means don't fork) and 2) -x which is a debugging option which prints out, well, debugging info ;-) > And what is the use of the option -a? When I referred to the `-a' option I was talking about cygrunsrv. The `-a' option takes the arguments you wish to pass to the executable, cron.exe, and when the service is started it is started with those arguments. For example, taken from cron.README: $ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/