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Subject: RE:  cron.hourly
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:01:25 -0400
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From: "Reid Thompson" <Reid DOT Thompson AT ateb DOT com>
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   "Totte Karlsson" <tkarlsson AT qm DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Reid Thompson wrote:
> 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


cron hourly
  00    *    *   *    * /path/to/executable >/path/to/logfile
will run at the top of each hour

  30   *    *   *    * /path/to/executable >/path/to/logfile
will run at the bottom of each hour
etc...




reid

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