X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4468FF5A.6010003@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 18:23:22 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Fedora/1.5-0.2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cron execution References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Nelson Pereira wrote: > Hi all, > > I edited a users crontab, although I don’t understand why it's not > executing... > > The crontab has an entry to backup every hour, yet the cronjob does not > seem to get called. > > Can someone explain to me what im missing? Here's one thing: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Do I have to call it from the windows scheduler? Certainly not. Try executing something simple like: * * * * * /bin/echo hello >/tmp/hi -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/