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Subject: RE: Usage Of Cron and AT commands
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:24:20 +0100
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On 18 August 2006 12:01, sujit DOT menon AT tcs DOT com wrote:

>   Hi CygWinners,
>   I would like to know the syntax of crontab, cron and at commands for
>   its use in task scheduling.

"man cron"
"man crontab"

'at' is a windows command using the windows task scheduler.  It's more
straightforward to use cron with cygwin.

 
>   Also, can we do a Cron or AT job using Cygwin installation?

  Yes.  Cron is preferable in this situation to at, as mentioned above.

>   If yes, please tell me the procedure...  How do we allow permission's
>   for the cron job. What file needs to modified to add the user id.

Simple:

  1.  Read the docs.  /usr/share/doc/cron has the generic cron documentation,
even more importantly /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README has the cygwin
specific stuff.

  2.  Use the supplied script /bin/cron-config to set it up correctly.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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