RE: Problem with cron!

[cygwin at harrier dot ch]

Salutations!


I get the identical symptoms on WIN98SE.

Last week I downloaded and updated my installed
configuration with the latest. From this point
in time, cron has refused to work - by this I
mean that all crontab functions appear to function
as usual, the cron task appears in ps and Mark
Harig's cron_diagnose.sh script does not indicate
any errors. However my tasks are still not run.

[It must be mentioned that I do not have cron
installed as a service, but start it by hand
in a bash after each reboot. I have not been
able to get any of the procedures I have found
to install cron as a service to do the job.]

I have been able to circumvent my difficulty
by overwriting cron.exe from cron-3.0.1-10.tar.bz2
with cron.exe from cron-3.0.1-8.tar.bz2, so I'm
satisfied for the moment, but thought someone
might want to know about the difference.


James



...> RE: Problem with cron!
...> From: "Harig, Mark" <maharig at idirect dot net>
...> To: <tfletcher at netfactoriel dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
...> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:14:56 -0400
...> Subject: RE: Problem with cron!
...>
...> Please run the attached script.
...>
...> It will attempt to diagnose your problem
...> with cron.
...>
...> It will not modify any files on your computer.
...>
...> You might need to run the script several times.
...>
...> Each time that it finds a problem, it stops and
...> displays a descriptive message.
...>
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Tim [mailto:tfletcher@netfactoriel.com]
 > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:35 AM
 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
 > Subject: Problem with cron!
 >
 >
 > hi,
 >
 > i'm having a bit of truble with cron.
 > i have just installed a fresh cygwin on a win2k box.
 > first i create the following crontab
 > --cut--
 > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
 > # (/tmp/crontab.1244 installed on Fri Jun 20 16:27:11 2003)
 > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41
 > corinna Exp $)
 > 0 0 * * * Tim echo "hello"
 > --cut--
 >
 > then run cron (/usr/sbin/cron)
 >
 > if i do a ps i get the following:
 >
 >       PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
 >       464       1     464        464  con 1002 16:23:32 /usr/bin/bash
 >       244       1     244        244    ? 1002 16:27:25 /usr/sbin/cron
 >      1188     464    1188       1512  con 1002 16:33:39 /usr/bin/ps
 >
 > but nothing else seems to happen!
 >
 > i know this is a really stupid question for this list, but i
 > realy have no idea what to do.
 >
 > Thanks for taking the time to read this and have a nice day
 >
 > Tim


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