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Re: cron dying in Windows but not in Cygwin
* Dave Korn (2004-05-27 11:26 +0100)
>> * Robert Pollard (2004-05-26 18:33 +0100)
>>> I have a bit of a problem where when we launch cron from
>> the command
>>> line after a few days it dies in Windows but is still visible in
>>> Cygwin.
>>
>> Beg your pardon? Your sentence doesn't make sense to me.
>>
>>> Currently, I run a script that launches /usr/sbin/cron. This
>>> script only launches cron if it isn't running.
>>>
>>> Does it have something to do with not launching from an rc file?
>>
>> Excuse me? rc files are /configuration/ files...
>
> Have you ever actually *read* one? They're shell scripts.
You mean the runlevel scripts in rc.d? They're neither part of the
default Cygwin nor of cron installation so I didn't think of these.
/I/ meant "rc files" like bashrc, zshrc, etc.
This misunderstanding proves only two things:
1. People who are retentive with facts and descriptions (like RP)
provoke misunderstandings inevitably.
2. If RP had even a slight understanding of Cygwin, he would have
known that no "runlevel script" is required to start a "Cygwin
service/daemon" (because there are no Cygwin services or daemons; just
Windows services.)
But I'm not even sure that RP read the cron readme so 2. may be
pointless.
Thorsten
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