From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de>
To: "Jeff Lu" <jklcom@mindspring.com>
Cc: Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: How to set up crontab file in cygwin?
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 11:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13199208694.20020105203010@familiehaase.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <KOECLEOGILBHGEOOEBGNMEBFCAAA.jklcom@mindspring.com>
Hallo Jeff,
Please keep Cygwin related discussion on the Cygwin list.
Am 2002-01-05 um 19:16 schriebst du:
> Can you show the steps in setting up the crontab file
> and the cron job?
usage: crontab [-u user] file
crontab [-u user] { -e | -l | -r }
(default operation is replace, per 1003.2)
-e (edit user's crontab)
-l (list user's crontab)
-r (delete user's crontab)
I use always joe because I'm too stupid to learn the VI:
$ export EDITOR=joe
you may use also `vim' as editor.
Then run:
$ crontab -e
In joe I get existing crontabs and if there are none then
an empty file, first line in my files is always:
MAILTO=gp at familiehaase.de # <---- your.real@adress.here
and then the jobs:
0 0-23/4 * * * /usr/bin/updatedb
This means:
Run: /usr/bin/updatedb at 0:00, 4:00, 8:00, 12:00, 16:00, 20:00 o'clock,
every day of the month (say every four hours).
For details how to run a job every Monday to Friday but not Saturday and
Sunday look `man crontab' & `man 5 crontab' & `man cron'
The daemon itself is installed with cygrunsrv, see in the archives:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg01242.html
Gerrit
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <KOECLEOGILBHGEOOEBGNMEBFCAAA.jklcom@mindspring.com>
2002-01-05 11:27 ` Gerrit P. Haase [this message]
2002-01-28 16:01 ` Jeff Lu
2002-01-31 11:38 ` Jari Aalto+list.cygwin
2002-02-02 14:27 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2002-01-28 16:15 ` Jeff Lu
2002-01-28 16:40 ` How to start cron service " Jeff Lu
[not found] <KOECLEOGILBHGEOOEBGNIEBICAAA.jklcom@mindspring.com>
2002-01-05 17:53 ` How to set up crontab file " Gerrit P. Haase
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