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Subject: RE:  cron.hourly
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:58:58 -0400
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From: "Reid Thompson" <Reid DOT Thompson AT ateb DOT com>
To: "Totte Karlsson" <tkarlsson AT qm DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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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

$ cat exampleCronFile 
#*     *   *   *    *  command to be executed
#-     -   -   -    -
#|     |   |   |    |
#|     |   |   |    +----- day of week (1 - 7) (monday = 1)
#|     |   |   +------- month (1 - 12)
#|     |   +--------- day of month (1 - 31)
#|     +----------- hour (0 - 23)
#+------------- min (0 - 59)

05    15   5   2    *  /path/to/executable >/path/to/logfile



will execute the executable at 3:15 PM on the 5th of the second month
and it doesn't care which day of the week that is.


reid

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