X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44B51561.4050409@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:29:37 -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/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cron/crontab problems. References: <44B4F993 DOT 5010604 AT fixertec DOT net> In-Reply-To: <44B4F993.5010604@fixertec.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Kyle Johnson wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm having some problems with cron & crontab in cygwin, running on > Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Service Pack 4. > > What: I have two cronjobs setup, running at a 3 hour difference. The > first job runs at 7PM, Monday through Friday, and tar -cjPf's .DBF files > in a certain directory. The next script runs at 10PM, Monday through > Friday, and tar -cjPf's * files in a certain directory. These were > working OK for a few days, then they stopped. I noticed this when I > checked on the backups the following day, and found that all of the > recently made files were only 42b big, as opposed to 128MB or such. > > If I run the contents of the scripts from the command line, everything > works OK. > > I have pasted all relevant information at http://paste.fixertec.net/5 > > Also, today, I ran 'crontab -e' from the command line, and I got the > error from lines 30 to 34, at http://paste.fixertec.net/5. > I then ran 'net stop cron' and 'net start cron', which then allowed me > to do a 'crontab -e' successfully. > > Any ideas? Sure. 1. Install, read the README, and run rebaseall. 2. Try a snapshot . 3. Follow the problem reporting guidelines if one of the 2 options above doesn't fix your problem . -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (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/