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From: "Brian Kelly" <brian DOT m DOT kelly AT verizon DOT net>
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Subject: RE: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:11:35 -0500
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Be sure you leave a blank line at the bottom of the crontab. This a
little
detail that is often overlooked - but one that would have been
discovered with a little research on unix cron. (cron of course has
*life* outside of cygwin) I'm not at all suggesting that this is the
problem - just one more thing to be aware of.

Brian Kelly


-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf
Of Thorsten Kampe
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 7:07 AM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1

* Russell Hind (2004-02-19 10:55 +0100)
> I have just installed the latest cygwin and set up cron to run using
> 
> cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
> cygrunsrv -S cron
> 
> It is running as a service (both in XP task manager and in ps -ef)
> 
> But I can't get it to execute commands.  I have tried a crontab as
both 
> /etc/crontab and /var/cron/tabs/Russell

How did you create those? crontab -e for the latter? You know that the
system-wide crontab has a additional field for the user?

cron logs tho /var/whatever and into the eventviewer. Please consult
those two logs and explain further "can't get it to execute commands". 

Try redirecting the output with ">". For executables use the full path
or the PATH variable inside the crontab. Please read the fine manual
which answers all FAQs.

Thorsten


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