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RE: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1
- From: "Harig, Mark" <maharig at idirect dot net>
- To: "Russell Hind" <rhind at mac dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:36:06 -0500
- Subject: RE: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1
Please read the message in the Cygwin mailing list at:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00711.html
It will provide you with a script that will attempt
to diagnose the problem that you are having with cron.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Hind [mailto:rhind@mac.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 4:56 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1
>
>
> I have just installed the latest cygwin and set up cron to run using
>
> cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
> cygrunsrv -S cron
>
> It is running as a service (both in XP task manager and in ps -ef)
>
> But I can't get it to execute commands. I have tried a
> crontab as both
> /etc/crontab and /var/cron/tabs/Russell
>
> Is there an FAQ for getting cron running under cygwin? I can't been
> able to find one.
>
> Thanks
>
> Russell
>
>
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