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 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: cron will not execute commands Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:44:58 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Harig, Mark" To: "steve" , X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i2AFkFVA028997 1. Here is a more recent version of the diagnostic script. It has fixed several bugs. Please run it. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00379.html 2. It's not clear from your message whether you are having problems getting cron to run, or whether you are having problems only with the specific commands that you want run. Please try a simple crontab entry such as the following to establish that cron is running: * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/date.txt 3. Verify that the environment that cron sees is adequate for what your program needs: * * * * * /usr/bin/env > /tmp/env.txt > > > Hello:) > > To whom It may concern- > > I am trying to have cron execute a simple rsync command, but > have run across > substantial problems trying to make it work. I have "rtfm" > documentation - > user guide, FAQ, Google and mail archives when I came across this > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00711.html > > I have run the cron_diagnose.sh and followed the suggestion > done it twice so > now I am sending you this. By the way it works fine from the > command line. I > have also included the messages.txt from tail -f > /var/log/messages for this > crontab. > > Will someone respond to this? > > Need help. > > Thanks: > Steve Nutt > -- 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/