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Date:  Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:07:07 -0500
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Kevin Markle wrote:

> Larry Hall (Cygwin) explained on 3/15/2007 :
>> Kevin Markle wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm attempting to install cron on a Windows 2003 machine and am
>>> somewhat Unix challanged. Is there a documented procedure that works
>>> somewhere. It seems that there are tons of posts out relating to this
>>> but they all seem to offer different information. :o) I was wondering
>>> if anybody has had any luck actually getting cron to work on a w3k
>>> machine. If possible I would like to run the service with a Network
>>> login if not a local admin would work...
>>
>> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README
>=20
> I used that and it worked I have installed the service as a network user
> | logged in as that user and created this crontab file but it doesn't
> run. The file runs okay from command prompt but not from the crontab file?
>=20
> 1       *       *       *       *       /time.bash > /dev/null 2>&1

It's not clear if you used `crontab -e` or not?  That command is the way to=
 add
entries to your crontab, and if it doesn't run that means either cron is not
running (as a service) or there is a problem (probably logged in Windows' e=
vent
log).

> In my reading I gathered that this was a way to get around intalling a
> mail client.

Setting up cron to get around installing a mail client?  Are you kidding? m=
ail
clients (or servers) have nothing to do with cron; cron uses the server (ss=
mtp
or exim, whatever is symbolically linked to sendmail) to send messages.
--=20
Ren=E9 Berber


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