From: David Karr <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: How to start and verify cron?
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA5t8Vq5+4dizayQUDG_=jx_i=ZgCTjo6-q567nhge77eS--CQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
I've checked the user guide and the FAQ, and I can't find any information
about how to start cron and verify that it's working. I found other blog
posts on other sites, but some of them are old.
I had installed cron, and I thought it was working, but now I think that it
is not. If I edit "~/crontab" and then run "crontab -l", it lists the
changes I've made to jobs, so at least that is working. The real job I
have didn't appear to be doing what it was supposed to be doing, so I added
a new trivial job that just appends output from "date" to a file in my
homedir, and after the scheduled time of the job, the file was not created.
This is the additional job I added:
40,42,44 * * * * date >> /home/<myuid>/date.txt
I did find a "/var/log/cron.log", but it is empty, and the modtime is from
a few months ago.
One blog post I found talks about running "cygrunsrv -I cron -p
/usr/sbin/cron -a -D". I just did this, and it reports "The specified
service already exists."
This is my uname -a output:
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 ... 3.0.3(0.338/5/3) 2019-03-09 19:12 x86_64 Cygwin
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next reply other threads:[~2019-07-10 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-10 16:55 David Karr [this message]
2019-07-10 17:19 ` Brian Inglis
2019-07-10 22:15 ` David Karr
2019-07-10 23:04 ` Brian Inglis
2019-07-11 19:57 ` David Karr
2019-07-11 20:12 ` Vince Rice
2019-07-11 20:23 ` Vince Rice
2019-07-11 21:18 ` David Karr
2019-07-11 21:52 ` Vince Rice
2019-07-11 21:20 ` David Karr
2019-07-11 22:57 ` René Berber
2019-07-11 23:21 ` René Berber
2019-07-12 15:20 ` Brian Inglis
2019-07-12 16:18 ` David Karr
2019-07-13 8:26 ` Brian Inglis
2019-07-13 7:59 ` Henning
2019-07-13 8:21 ` Brian Inglis
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