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From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: cron
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:15:00 -0000
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Μηχανογράφηση ΔΔΕ Α΄ Αθήνας" <mix@dide-a-ath.att.sch.gr>
To: <cygwin>
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 3:51


| Cron installs as service without problems but does not run jobs. Same
| thing happens when it is installed without the '-D' argument (so that
| Windows does not monitor the service).


The job does get run !
2009/09/15 14:00:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 1568: (Administrator) CMD (/usr/bin/echo "abc"
 > /tmp/d)

I assume you don't see /tmp/d
Is there a cron.log file in the Administrator HOME or some cron related files in /tmp?
They may contain error messages.

Note also that the -D switch is obsolete (although still supported in the Cygwin port).
usage:  /usr/sbin/cron [-n] [-x [ext,sch,proc,pars,load,misc,test,bit]]

Pierre


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