From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 751 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2002 23:52:45 -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 694 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2002 23:52:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ex02.idirect.net) (208.226.76.48) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2002 23:52:43 -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 16:07:00 -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/msg00418.txt.bz2 > > 5. Check your crontab: crontab -l >=20 > Done it shows: >=20 > # 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 >=20 Do you have a file '/usr/sbin/date'? Usually, this is in /usr/bin/ not /usr/sbin/. At your shell prompt, enter: type date or which date --- -- 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/