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From: "René Berber" <r.berber@computer.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cron Problems
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ea3lg6$j73$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44C53D94.7010705@awmi.net>

Andrew King wrote:

> Before I get started, please note that I'm a complete Cygwin newbie, so
> try to bear with me.
> 
> We had Cron running on a system to check the integrity of our backups,
> but the drive went out.  We had a backup of the drive before it went
> out.  My boss now wants me to make the Cron run again from the backup of
> the Cygwin directory, and I've never worked with Cygwin in my life.  So
> I really don't know what I'm doing.  I tried running "cygrunsrv -I Cron
> -p /bin/crontab.exe" to install the service.  The service installs, but
[snip]

Wrong, the service is not installed that way.

Read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README first, then uninstall the mess you did
with "cygrunsrv -R Cron" before you install it again.

Second, you should really learn about how to use cron.  The documentation of the
installed cron can be seen with "man cron", "man crontab", "man 5 crontab".  Any
 documentation from the Web could also be useful.
-- 
René Berber


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-24 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-24 23:29 Andrew King
2006-07-24 23:38 ` René Berber [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-14 22:18 cron problems Charles Miller
2008-05-14 22:28 ` Pierre A. Humblet
2007-11-06 15:30 Helge Stenström
2007-11-06 15:56 ` Pierre A. Humblet
2007-05-14 14:45 CRON problems sabbella
2007-05-14 17:39 ` Pierre A. Humblet
2004-05-07 15:17 Harig, Mark
2004-05-07 15:15 Harig, Mark
2004-05-07 15:20 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2004-05-07 15:12 Harig, Mark
2004-05-06 22:47 Harig, Mark
2004-05-06 23:42 ` Hank Statscewich
2004-05-07  0:14   ` Igor Pechtchanski
2004-05-07  0:52     ` Hank Statscewich
2004-05-07  2:06       ` Brian Dessent
2004-05-07  6:55         ` Andrew DeFaria
2004-05-07  8:21           ` Brian Dessent
2004-05-07 15:06             ` Igor Pechtchanski
2004-05-07 15:23               ` Andrew DeFaria
2004-05-07 15:53                 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2004-05-07 20:08                   ` Andrew DeFaria
2004-05-07 15:20             ` Andrew DeFaria
2004-05-06  0:16 Hank Statscewich
2003-01-23 10:47 Cron Problems Wu Yongwei
2003-01-23 11:01 ` Elfyn McBratney
2003-01-23  6:24 Wu Yongwei
2003-01-23  9:48 ` Elfyn McBratney
2001-10-31  8:51 cron problems Lou Rayman

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