From: Eric De La Cruz Lugo <eric_delacruz@yahoo.com>
To: "Harig, Mark A." <maharig@idirect.net>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021206234838.33048.qmail@web21409.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BADF3C947A1BD54FBA75C70C241B0B9E7630D9@ex02.idirect.net>
--- "Harig, Mark A." <maharig@idirect.net> wrote:
> It appears as though everything is set correctly.
>
> Try:
>
> 1. Shut down your cron service.
Done.
> 2. Run Cygwin's setup.exe to uninstall 'cron'.
Done.
> 3. Run setup.exe a second time to
> download/install
> a new copy of 'cron'.
Done.
> 4. Reboot your computer.
Done.
> 5. Check your crontab: crontab -l
Done it shows:
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and
reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.1036 installed on Fri Dec 6 13:04:23
2002)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.6 2001/09/19
17:09:55 corinna Exp $)
* * * * * /usr/sbin/date >> /tmp/date.txt
> 6. Install the cron service and start it.
cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e
"CYGWIN=tty ntsec"
cygrunserv -S cron
ps -e shows:
PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID
STIME COMMAND
1560 1 1560 1560 con 1000
17:35:32 /usr/bin/bash
1420 1 1420 1420 ? 18
17:36:52 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
1384 1420 1420 1132 ? 18
17:36:52 /usr/sbin/cron
1040 1560 1040 1648 con 1000
17:45:21 /usr/bin/ps
waited for 8 minutes and checked /tmp....guess what???
NOTHING! there is no output yet :( no "date.txt"
anything else? other aproach to this problem?
>
Eric De La Cruz Lugo
Merida Yucatan, Mexico.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-06 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-06 15:14 Harig, Mark A.
2002-12-06 15:52 ` Eric De La Cruz Lugo [this message]
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2002-12-06 16:07 Harig, Mark A.
2002-12-06 20:53 ` Eric De La Cruz Lugo
2002-12-09 17:10 ` Andrew DeFaria
2002-12-06 13:30 Harig, Mark A.
2002-12-06 13:24 Harig, Mark A.
2002-12-06 12:04 Harig, Mark A.
2002-12-06 12:05 ` Eric De La Cruz Lugo
2002-12-06 14:03 ` Eric De La Cruz Lugo
2002-12-06 11:21 Eric De La Cruz Lugo
2002-12-06 11:02 Harig, Mark A.
2002-12-06 8:51 Eric De La Cruz Lugo
2002-12-06 9:07 ` Christopher Faylor
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