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RE: cron dying in Windows but not in Cygwin
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:26:38 +0100
- Subject: RE: cron dying in Windows but not in Cygwin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Thorsten Kampe
> Sent: 26 May 2004 23:06
> * 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.
cheers,
DaveK
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