From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6595 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2002 19:35:57 -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 6573 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2002 19:35:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ex02.idirect.net) (208.226.76.48) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2002 19:35:56 -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 problem in W2K Proffesional Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 12:04:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Harig, Mark A." To: "Eric De La Cruz Lugo" , X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00403.txt.bz2 What are the ownership/permissions for '/var'? That is, ls -ld /var > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric De La Cruz Lugo [mailto:eric_delacruz@yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 2:09 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional >=20 >=20 > >1. Have you read /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README? >=20 > Yes. >=20 > >2. Have you tried using a simple crontab entry? > > What have you tried? >=20 > yes i am using now the following example: > crontab -e >=20 > * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/date.txt >=20 > "as you suggested to Buck Turgidson" >=20 > but there is nothing yet in /tmp/ (6 minutes waiting) >=20 > yes the /tmp directory has the 777 permissions >=20 > thanks for your hints! >=20 >=20 > >For future reference, please include >your > 'cygcheck.txt' > >file as an attachment only. >=20 > Ok, I will. >=20 > Eric De La Cruz Lugo > Merida Yucatan Mexico. >=20 >=20 > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com >=20 > -- > 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/ >=20 >=20 -- 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/