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From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
Subject: Re: cron
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----- Original Message ----- 
| From: Marc Kirby <>
| Date: May 14, 2008 8:27 PM
| Subject: cron daemon dies
| To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
| 
| 
| Hi..  I've started the cron daemon and tested that it works with a
| test job writing output to /tmp/mdk.  Somewhere along the line though
| the daemon dies and I have to run my backup job that is supposed to
| run at 4:30 every morning manually.  Can't seem to figure this one
| out... any help would be much appreciated.
| 
| Thanks
| Marc
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Marc,

I see that you are not running cron as a service. You are starting it from the command window.
Could it be that you were logged out at 4:30 in the morning of May 14?
The cron that was running when you sent the message was only started on May 14 at 20:19:52 
Use cron-config to launch cron as a service (or stay logged in).

Pierre

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