RE: Look before posting) (Re: Think before replying)

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

On 23 August 2006 10:47, sujit.menon@tcs wrote:

> I don't think I have asked any "Silly" Question. And it has nothing to do
> with my country.

  I think you have asked a silly question, or perhaps better to say that you
have been asking questions in a silly way, but I also don't believe it has
anything to do with your country.  I wanted to say that at the start, because
the rest of us haven't seen the off-list post to which you are replying, and I
don't want to suggest I agree with anything that was said in that post.

> No question is novice enough in the world. All questions are relevant to
> people asking thm. 

  You said

"  I would like to know the syntax of crontab, cron and at commands for
  its use in task scheduling.  "

  I showed you the man page that explains the syntax of crontab and cron.

  You replied 

  "I am not using crontab and am using cron and at for batch processing"

  You contradicted yourself.  One minute you want to know about crontab, the
next you don't.  I appreciate that there is a language barrier, but you still
denied one minute what you had said just a minute before.  This is hard for
people to understand.

> I still repeat that I want to know how cron job works in cygwin. 

  Then read the manual page for cron.  And crontab.  Because they work
together.

> How do you
> add permissions androot permissions
> in Cygwin. Its a very valid question and I think its an expert question.

  No, it's not.  Add permissions?  Add permissions to *what*?  An expert would
have known to say what.

> I know very well how cron job works in Solaris and Linux systems, FYI, I
> wanted to know how it works on
> cygwin as it requires a root permission and needs some userids to be added
> in some files.

  READ THE DOCS LIKE I TOLD YOU TO.  THE ONES I POINTED YOU AT EXPLAIN ALL THE
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CYGWIN AND LINUX CRON.  In particular, how to set up the
cron daemon running under cygrunsrv using the proper configuration script that
will set up permissions for you.

> I am ccing this mail as a protest to people who think that only "expert"
> questions should be asked. 

  Absolutely not, but if you completely ignore the answers people give you and
just post the exact same question again without explaining why the first
answers didn't help nor even acknowledging that anyone answered at all, you
are being rude.  This is regardless of race and language barriers.

> For Your Information, None of the people who think they are experts and
> have replied with such mails
> have been able to answer my query
> though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  I did answer the question you asked.  Now re-ask the question you actually
WANT answered.

> (the great country who kicked out the Britishers
> out of thier land and the rest had the guts to do it
> only after we did it)

  Mahatma Ghandi was a truly great man.  I bow my head to him.

  However, that's got nothing to do with cron and crontab!


    cheers,
      DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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