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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:59:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Tim Ashman <wolfgang_mx3 AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000
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Tim,

Umm, sorry, I meant just the underlined lines, but I guess no dice...

Did you try running Mark Harig's cron_diagnose.sh (Google for it) on your
system?  Does it report any errors?

Does the "date" example produce any messages in syslog (i.e., Windows
Event log)?  An obligatory silly question, BTW: did you start the cron
service?  What options did you pass to cygrunsrv to create the service?
	Igor

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote:

> Igor,
>
> The output I displayed in my last posting was from the event log. It is not
> what my script is supposed to output. My script uses the lynx utility to
> download specific data files from an http site and echoes some progress
> statements back to the shell. I have tried what you suggested below and the
> "hello world" date crontab as well. Both do not work. I have also tried
> different combinations of path (/bin and /usr/bin) in my crontab, but still
> no luck. Note, I open a bash shell from /bin/bash and write my crontab from
> there. Just a quick sidetrack...why does the "pwd" command give /usr/bin
> when the shell was opened in /bin?
>
> Any other ideas of what the problem could be? Do you think it's
> path-related? Thank you so much...
>
> ----------------------
>
> Tim,
>
> Replies inline below.
>
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote:
>
>  > Igor
>  >
>  > I have attached the windows event log. Can you help? Thanks.
>  >
>  > Event Type:     Information
>  > Event Source:   ./crontab
>  > Event Category: None
>  > Event ID:       0
>  > Date:           11/18/2003
>  > Time:           10:37:29 AM
>  > User:           ECPACIFIC\ashmant
>  > Computer:       TAYLORBILL
>  > Description:
>  > The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( ./crontab ) cannot be found.
>  > The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or
>  > message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following
>  > information is part of the event: ./crontab : PID 596 :
>  > (ashmant) LIST (ashmant).
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Isn't this what your script is supposed to output?  Looks to me like your
> crontab actually worked.  If you don't redirect the output of your script,
> it goes to syslog (which, in case of Cygwin, is the Windows event log).
> Try changing your crontab entry to something like
>
> 33 12 * * * /usr/bin/bsh_ubcfxscript.txt >> /tmp/bsh_ubcfxscript.out
>
> and see if it works.  In fact, did you try the "Hello, world!" of all
> crontabs, i.e.
>
> 33 12 * * * /bin/date >> /tmp/date.out
>
> ?  HTH,
>         Igor
>
>  > ----Original Message Follows----
>  > From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
>  > Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>  > To: Tim Ashman <wolfgang_mx3 AT hotmail DOT com>
>  > CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>  > Subject: Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000
>  > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:00:32 -0500 (EST)
>  >
>  > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote:
>  >
>  > >Crontab will not run on my Cygwin platform.
>  > >
>  > >I am using Cygwin 1.5.5 under Windows 2000 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4.
>  > >
>  > >I want to schedule some bash scripts using crontab. Each script runs
>  > >perfectly fine on its own. I created the following crontab from the bash
>  > >shell, located at /bin/bash:
>  > >
>  > >    # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
>  > >    # (/tmp/crontab.1904 installed on Wed Nov 19 12:32:06 2003)
>  > >    # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $)
>  > >
>  > >    33 12 * * * /usr/bin/bsh_ubcfxscript.txt
>  > >
>  > >When the time scheduled arrives, nothing happens. No error messages occur
>  > >and the script does not execute.
>  > >
>  > >cygcheck.out is attached
>  > >
>  > >Thank you.
>  >
>  > Did you check the Windows Event log?
>  >         Igor

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