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r wrote:

>>> I started cron ( with "cron-config" command, ( is it possible=20
>>> to configure it to start at win boot ? ))
>> Cron-config did that.
>=20
> so I did once and from next time it will be started at boot
> time ? Because I did not find this information everywhere.

Yes it will start at boot time (if and only if you answered yes when=20
cron-config asked you "Do you want to install the cron daemon as a=20
service?"), you can check it in many ways:

- Running: cygrunsrv -Q cron
- Opening My Computer -> Manage -> Services and Applications -> Services

>>> but at 00.27 nothing appened. Did I make something wrong ?
>> You didn't learn to use cron:
>>
>> man crontab
>>
>> less /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-4.1-6.README
>=20
> I read the documents in /usr/share/doc/cron/, the cron manpages=20
> but they did not specify those informations.
> Now I read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-4.1-6.README and crontab
> manpage but again they don't specify those informations.
> You are right about reading documentation, and maybe I had to
> look on the web, but I was told that cygwin apps are not exactly
> the same as linux apps. So looking in linux apps docs may be unuseful.

Cron under Cygwin is very close to the one usually distributed with=20
Linux.  I think the man page has all the information you requested, even=20
some you didn't but should know to avoid mistakes like putting a file=20
under /var/cron/tabs; the top of the man page tells you that crontab is=20
the tool you should use, the alternative (inherited from Linux) is to=20
use /etc/cron.d/ .
--=20
Ren=C3=A9 Berber


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