From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29400 invoked by alias); 31 Aug 2007 15:51:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 29391 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Aug 2007 15:51:00 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (HELO vms040pub.verizon.net) (206.46.252.40) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:50:50 +0000 Received: from PHUMBLETLAPXP ([12.6.244.2]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JNN00MG7ANKGNX7@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:50:09 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:34:00 -0000 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" Subject: Re: cron To: "Barry Benowitz" , Message-id: <030101c7ebe6$623849d0$4c0410ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <9C329342B62B87498B92834DEC9FF51EAE5223@fig.raritan.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2007-08/txt/msg00830.txt.bz2 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Benowitz" <> To: Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 10:55 AM Subject: cron Hi All, I am really struggling with this. I have been playing and playing. I now get no errors with cron_diagnose.sh, but I don't see any events in cronevents (at least not lately) There were some with earlier attempts on 8/30. I can see cron running when I do ps -e, but I edit my crontab to perform a touch and it never hasn't. As I said I get no events in cronevents, not even a start up message, I no longer see the edit events when I edit crontab. I get nothing. ****************** cronbug.txt shows that cron is running (launched today) but indeed there are no recent events in the Windows log. Did you by any chance install syslog at some point? Does /dev/log exist? /var/log/cron.log is not empty (unusual). What does it contain? cronbug.txt shows the following cron event: 2007/08/30 14:01:01 [builder] (builder) WRONG FILE OWNER (tabs/builder) However that's probably fixed now -rw-r----- 1 builder Administrators 395 Aug 31 10:38 /var/cron/tabs/builder The MAILTO=cronrun.log has no effect because it does not start with / Was there any info in ~/cron.log or in /tmp/cronXXX files ? Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/