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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:10:55 -0400
To: "Sachar, Bradley (NIH/OD)" <SacharB AT OD DOT NIH DOT GOV>,
   "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Unable to get CRON to work
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At 05:51 PM 4/12/2004, you wrote:
>Cygwin Support,
> 
>I have done a new installation of cygwin into the C:\cygwin folder.  CRON
>does not seem to be waking up and executing the crontab.  I have run the
>cron_diagnose.sh program and it told me to run a cygcheck.  Output from both
>are attached.
> 
>Any help would be appreciated.
>Thanks, 
>Brad Sachar 
>301 435-2408

Try:

* * * * * /bin/echo  "hi" > /cygdrive/h/test.txt

If that's still a problem, put 'test.txt' in a local directory.


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