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Subject: RE: I'm getting crazy whith the cron
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:32:46 +0200
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There is no executable command '/bin/echo "hello" > /cygdríve/c/test.txt'
Remove the single quotes in the crontab file...

  matthias



> -----Original Message-----
...
> Of Marcos Rebelo
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 1:11 PM
...
> Subject: I'm getting crazy whith the cron
> 
> 
> I don't know what to do any more.
> 
> On the System Events I find this:
...
> is part of the event: /usr/sbin/cron : PID 992 : (mrebelo) CMD
> ('/bin/echo "hello" > /cygdrive/c/test.txt').
...
> crontab -l
> 
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.4000 installed on Wed Oct 20 16:07:47 2004)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 
> corinna Exp
> $)
> *       *       *       *       *       '/bin/echo "hello" >
> /cygdrive/c/test.txt'
... ignoring further information

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