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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:25:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Sutton <william AT trilug DOT org>
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Subject: Re: cron does not do anything
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Did you check that your cron job line is formatted correctly?  If your 
line is literally of the form

/usr/bin/touch /tmp/abcd

then it definitely won't run because it is incorrectly written.

William Sutton

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ting Zhou" <>
> To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>
>
> I'd like to report a bug with Vixie cron. I have cygwin installed with cron option. And I ran
> "cron-config" and set up everything. Cron-diagnose script didn't find any problem. Cron service
> was also started without problem. However, cron just wouldn't run the simple command I set up in
> the crontab "/usr/bin/touch /tmp/abcd".
> ****************
> Hi,
>
> On your system you have syslog running, instead of using the Windows event log.
> That's fine, except that your syslog configuration now controls how the cron log messages
> are handled. The current "cronbug" script is not smart enough to figure that out
> and does not provide enough info to help you (everything looks normal to me)
>
> Please send us in attachment the file containing the cron logs (if they are kept).
> If it's very long, use "fgrep -i cron" to isolate relevant lines.
> Alternatively, stop both syslog and cron, then restart cron only, run the cronbug script
> again and send us the output.
>
> Pierre
>
>
>
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