From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22488 invoked by alias); 23 Jan 2003 04:01:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 22480 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2003 04:01:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail18.svr.pol.co.uk) (195.92.67.23) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 23 Jan 2003 04:01:37 -0000 Received: from modem-679.chimpanzee.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.134.114.167] helo=webdev.emcbnet.co.uk) by mail18.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18bYYZ-0008Bm-00 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 04:01:36 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=webdev) by webdev.emcbnet.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.12) id H95F8A-0002Y0-00; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 04:02:34 +0000 Message-ID: <006001c2c294$3c1e6b10$a77286d9@webdev> From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" , "Wu Yongwei" References: <3E2F65D1.8080406@netstd.com> Subject: Re: Cron Problems Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:01:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg01339.txt.bz2 > Thanks. However, where can I find the options of cron? Now I only find > some info in /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README, but only in the ChangeLog > section, which I ignored on the first reading! There are only two options you can pass to cron. 1) -D (got the meaning wrong the last time; Means don't fork) and 2) -x which is a debugging option which prints out, well, debugging info ;-) > And what is the use of the option -a? When I referred to the `-a' option I was talking about cygrunsrv. The `-a' option takes the arguments you wish to pass to the executable, cron.exe, and when the service is started it is started with those arguments. For example, taken from cron.README: $ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn@exposure.org.uk www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/