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Subject: RE:  cron.hourly
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:55:00 -0400
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Totte Karlsson wrote:
> Hi,
> I have started cron as a service under Windows 2000. I
> 'naively' created a directory, /etc/cron.hourly and put a
> script in there. I had hoped that cron would execute the
> script once every hour but it does not work.
> 
> How do I get the folders /etc/cron.hourly, etc/cron.daily
> etc/cron.weekly correctly working in cygwin? regards -totte

http://www.aota.net/Script_Installation_Tips/cronhelp.php3

reid

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