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-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVZid5WMbyMIvl7gchj1X2hkf8t17zn2U4g4Uf46p2nhxQ569L1oOzPq Message-ID: <3EBA57C0.8050509@rfk.com> Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 09:12:32 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" Reply-To: lhall AT rfk DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: a12 CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cron service install with parameter References: <3EBA3AC9 DOT E87B8652 AT swipnet DOT se> In-Reply-To: <3EBA3AC9.E87B8652@swipnet.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit a12 wrote: > Hi gurus, > > /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README tells how to install cron as > Windows service: > cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D > > When crontab contains script files, they are not executed > unless cron service is installed using: > cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -d "Cygwin cron" -e > "CYGWIN=tty ntsec" > > May I suggest a small patch to cron.README ? Sure. Patch away! -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/