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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Sanjay Goel" Subject: Re: cron in cygwin Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 10:58:48 +0530 Lines: 85 Message-ID: References: <001801c314c5$208250f0$6400a8c0 AT FoxtrotTech0001> X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Thanks a lot both of you ... I have used cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D and now cron is installed as a service in my win2k services . I hope my cron jobs will run fine now ... can u tell me how to test whether it works properly. I wrote a script called test.sh containing "echo test" and wrote */2 * * * * /d/test.sh but nothing came on my screen I have not installed ssmtp so cant check that in mail ... Thanks and Regards, Sanjay "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message news:Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 44 DOT 0305071452260 DOT 3212-100000 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu... > On Wed, 7 May 2003, Bill C. Riemers wrote: > > > > This is *way* too complicated. It's fine if you run other things using > > > sysvinit, but if all you want is cron, try the way described in > > > /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README (you did read it, didn't you? that directory > > > contains the necessary instructions specifically for the Cygwin ports -- > > > see ). > > > > Yes, I did try the directions in the README, but they do not work. > > "cygrunsrv" does not have -D option... > > > > cygrunsrv: unknown option -- D > > Bill, did you use the *exact* line from /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README? > > | Install as service like that: > | cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D > ^^ > The "-a" is a cygrunsrv option. It tells cygrunsrv to pass the "-D" > option to cron. > > > > Regarding your "NOTE 1" below -- is it reproducible? Could you please > > > post the output of "getfacl filename" before and after "chown filename"? > > > Perhaps Pierre or Corinna could comment on this? > > > > It reproduces 100% of the time. I've tried it on several different machines > > as well.. > > > > $ cd /etc > > $ echo "hi" > foo.txt > > $ chmod 600 foo.txt > > $ getfacl foo.txt > > # file: foo.txt > > # owner: docbill > > # group: None > > user::rw- > > group::--- > > mask:rwx > > other:--- > > > > $ chown SYSTEM foo.txt > > $ getfacl foo.txt > > # file: foo.txt > > # owner: SYSTEM > > # group: None > > user::rw- > > group::--- > > mask:rwx > > other:--- > > Looks fine to me. What error do you get if you try "echo 'hi' >> foo.txt" > after that? What if you try it from a SYSTEM-owned shell? > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. > -- Leto II > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/