From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26780 invoked by alias); 1 Jul 2005 00:10:38 -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 26754 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Jul 2005 00:10:31 -0000 Received: from mail2.creativeconsulting.com (HELO mail2.creativeconsulting.com) (63.137.245.178) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with SMTP; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:10:31 +0000 Received: from 209.97.230.250 ([209.97.230.250]) by mail2.creativeconsulting.com (DeskNow SMTP Server 1.3) with SMTP ID 392 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:10:30 -0600 From: "Siegfried Heintze" To: Subject: RE: cron issue: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be found Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:10:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <30138206.1120176635437.JavaMail.SYSTEM@CCC-NOVA1> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 I'm having similar troubles. I have read the cron.README file. I installed cron some time ago. I believe I used the command described in cron.README. I see there are several cron.exes running on my system when I look at the process list. Should there be? Here is one of the many entries in the event viewer.=20 I need some help interpreting this: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE=3D flag to retrieve this description; see Help a= nd Support for details. The following information is part of the event: /usr/sbin/cron : PID 1836 : (Siegfried) CMD (/c/Perl/bin/perl /c/WinOOP/Perl/bots/yahoo/finance/crawl-hot-jobs.pl /GUI=3DNONE /sleep=3D60 /threads=3D8 >`date +"). Any suggestions on how to resolve this? Thanks, Siegfried -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Ren=E9 Berber Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 3:26 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cron issue Imran Merali wrote: > I am trying to get cron to execute a bash script at a certain time, > but it is not doing so. The script itself works well, but it doesn't > seem to want to run when i set it up as a cron job. The same thing > happens when I try to do something simple like output a timestamp to a > text file each minute. This is a fresh install. Additionally, the line > in my crontab is identical to that in the crontab on my bsd machine. I > used cron_diagnose.sh, but it said my install was fine, with the > exception of a little issue with sendmail, which I tried to correct > with a symlink to a working mailer. [snip] First look into the Windows Event Viewer + Application, you should find a few events that have, among other things, the crond output. Second read $CYGWIN_HOME/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README and see what you need to have cron email you. BTW bash scripts work fine with cron, what you describe as doing should work with no problem. HTH --=20 Ren=E9 Berber -- 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/ -- 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/