From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29739 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2002 23:48:42 -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 29694 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2002 23:48:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web21409.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.232.79) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2002 23:48:39 -0000 Message-ID: <20021206234838.33048.qmail@web21409.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.67.184.184] by web21409.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:48:38 PST Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:52:00 -0000 From: Eric De La Cruz Lugo Subject: RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional To: "Harig, Mark A." , cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00417.txt.bz2 --- "Harig, Mark A." 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. __________________________________________________ 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/