From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23145 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2002 19:09:11 -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 23058 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2002 19:09:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web21408.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.232.78) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2002 19:09:10 -0000 Message-ID: <20021206190909.90796.qmail@web21408.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.67.184.184] by web21408.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:09:09 PST Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:21:00 -0000 From: Eric De La Cruz Lugo Subject: RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00401.txt.bz2 >1. Have you read /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README? Yes. >2. Have you tried using a simple crontab entry? > What have you tried? yes i am using now the following example: crontab -e * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/date.txt "as you suggested to Buck Turgidson" but there is nothing yet in /tmp/ (6 minutes waiting) yes the /tmp directory has the 777 permissions thanks for your hints! >For future reference, please include >your 'cygcheck.txt' >file as an attachment only. Ok, I will. Eric De La Cruz Lugo Merida Yucatan Mexico. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- 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/