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 Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 11:07:19 -0400 (EDT) From: cygwin AT harrier DOT ch Message-Id: <200308101507.h7AF7JTp027598@no14.dca1.superb.net> X-Authentication-Warning: no14.dca1.superb.net: likkmm set sender to cygwin AT harrier DOT ch using -r To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: Problem with cron! Salutations! I get the identical symptoms on WIN98SE. Last week I downloaded and updated my installed configuration with the latest. From this point in time, cron has refused to work - by this I mean that all crontab functions appear to function as usual, the cron task appears in ps and Mark Harig's cron_diagnose.sh script does not indicate any errors. However my tasks are still not run. [It must be mentioned that I do not have cron installed as a service, but start it by hand in a bash after each reboot. I have not been able to get any of the procedures I have found to install cron as a service to do the job.] I have been able to circumvent my difficulty by overwriting cron.exe from cron-3.0.1-10.tar.bz2 with cron.exe from cron-3.0.1-8.tar.bz2, so I'm satisfied for the moment, but thought someone might want to know about the difference. James ...> RE: Problem with cron! ...> From: "Harig, Mark" ...> To: , ...> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:14:56 -0400 ...> Subject: RE: Problem with cron! ...> ...> Please run the attached script. ...> ...> It will attempt to diagnose your problem ...> with cron. ...> ...> It will not modify any files on your computer. ...> ...> You might need to run the script several times. ...> ...> Each time that it finds a problem, it stops and ...> displays a descriptive message. ...> > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim [mailto:tfletcher AT netfactoriel DOT com] > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:35 AM > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: Problem with cron! > > > hi, > > i'm having a bit of truble with cron. > i have just installed a fresh cygwin on a win2k box. > first i create the following crontab > --cut-- > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/tmp/crontab.1244 installed on Fri Jun 20 16:27:11 2003) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 > corinna Exp $) > 0 0 * * * Tim echo "hello" > --cut-- > > then run cron (/usr/sbin/cron) > > if i do a ps i get the following: > > PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND > 464 1 464 464 con 1002 16:23:32 /usr/bin/bash > 244 1 244 244 ? 1002 16:27:25 /usr/sbin/cron > 1188 464 1188 1512 con 1002 16:33:39 /usr/bin/ps > > but nothing else seems to happen! > > i know this is a really stupid question for this list, but i > realy have no idea what to do. > > Thanks for taking the time to read this and have a nice day > > Tim -- 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/