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Subject: RE: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:36:06 -0500
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Please read the message in the Cygwin mailing list at:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00711.html

It will provide you with a script that will attempt
to diagnose the problem that you are having with cron.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Hind [mailto:rhind AT mac DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 4:56 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> Is there an FAQ for getting cron running under cygwin?  I can't been 
> able to find one.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Russell
> 
> 
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