From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jeff Lu" To: "cygwin" Subject: How to start cron service in cygwin? Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:40:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <13199208694.20020105203010@familiehaase.de> X-SW-Source: 2002-01/msg01748.html This is my cron file # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.1800 installed on Mon Jan 28 19:02:13 2002) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.3 2001/06/07 17:12:28 corinna Exp $) SHELL=/bin/sh 0-59/2 * * * * /c/progra~1/apache~1/apache/cgi-bin/print I installed and started the service but nothing is happening! cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D cygrunsrv -S cron It's supposed to execute print every 30 seconds. How do I check if the cron is really running? Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Gerrit P. Haase [ mailto:gp@familiehaase.de ] Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 11:30 AM To: Jeff Lu Cc: Cygwin Subject: Re: How to set up crontab file in cygwin? Hallo Jeff, Please keep Cygwin related discussion on the Cygwin list. Am 2002-01-05 um 19:16 schriebst du: > Can you show the steps in setting up the crontab file > and the cron job? usage: crontab [-u user] file crontab [-u user] { -e | -l | -r } (default operation is replace, per 1003.2) -e (edit user's crontab) -l (list user's crontab) -r (delete user's crontab) I use always joe because I'm too stupid to learn the VI: $ export EDITOR=joe you may use also `vim' as editor. Then run: $ crontab -e In joe I get existing crontabs and if there are none then an empty file, first line in my files is always: MAILTO=gp at familiehaase.de # <---- your.real@adress.here and then the jobs: 0 0-23/4 * * * /usr/bin/updatedb This means: Run: /usr/bin/updatedb at 0:00, 4:00, 8:00, 12:00, 16:00, 20:00 o'clock, every day of the month (say every four hours). For details how to run a job every Monday to Friday but not Saturday and Sunday look `man crontab' & `man 5 crontab' & `man cron' The daemon itself is installed with cygrunsrv, see in the archives: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg01242.html Gerrit -- =^..^= mailto:gp@familiehaase.de -- 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/