From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5645 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2002 18:53:58 -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 5638 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2002 18:53:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ex02.idirect.net) (208.226.76.48) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2002 18:53:57 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: Cron Won't Run Jobs Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 10:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Harig, Mark A." To: "Buck Turgidson" , X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00395.txt.bz2 >=20 > I am not sure how to interpret this, but if you can tell me=20 > what I need to > change, I'd appreciate it. This is getting me pretty frustrated... >=20 > -rw-r----- 1 400 18 211 Dec 5 08:39=20 > /var/cron/tabs/buck >=20 >=20 The '18' in your output is the group ownership number. As documented in /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README, this needs to be set to '18' (which should be the group number of SYSTEM in /etc/group). Your crontab's=20 permissions and ownerships are set correctly. Try using a simpler crontab entry, for example: * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/date.txt Delete all other lines in your crontab until you can get this entry to work. Make sure that cron has 'write' permission in /tmp, for example: chmod 777 /tmp --- -- 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/