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RE: cygwin crontab -- IT WORKS ....
- From: "Harig, Mark A." <maharig at idirect dot net>
- To: "Smithesh Ramachandran" <smithesh at ticketmaster dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:41:20 -0400
- Subject: RE: cygwin crontab -- IT WORKS ....
You'll likely also want to install the Cygwin ssmtp
package so that cron can send you email when it has
problems or other information to report.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Smithesh Ramachandran [mailto:smithesh@ticketmaster.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:38 PM
> To: Harig, Mark A.; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: cygwin crontab -- IT WORKS ....
>
>
> Hi Mark,
> I rebooted my machine and now cron is working.
> Thanks,
> Smithesh.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harig, Mark A. [mailto:maharig@idirect.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 12:42 PM
> To: Smithesh Ramachandran; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: cygwin crontab
>
>
> After installing the service (using the '-I' option), you
> need to start
> the service using the '-S' option.
>
> Debug one problem at a time. Instead of trying to get your
> perl script
> to work via 'cron', try to get the 'date' command to work,
> for example:
>
> * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/date.txt
>
> Once you have that working, you can work on the perl script problem.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Smithesh Ramachandran [mailto:smithesh@ticketmaster.com]
> > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 2:00 PM
> > To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> > Subject: cygwin crontab
> >
> >
> > Hi Corinna,
> > I'm having trouble with cygwin crontab. Basically, I'm
> trying to run a
> > cygwin perl script that does some scp from windows using
> > windows putty-scp
> > to linux and solaris boxes. I've tested the cygwin perl script with
> > putty-scp and it works well, but not with cron.
> >
> > I'm not sure if the following command will start the cron
> > server on cygwin.
> > But I executed this.
> > cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
> >
> > I got the above info from /usr/docs/Cygwin/cron.README
> >
> > I'm not getting any basic cron stuff working also. Please help.
> > Thanks,
> > Smithesh.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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