RE: Cron doesn't work

["Marcos Rebelo" <marcos dot rebelo at edisoft dot pt>]

It seems that cron is not working at all. 

What do I have to do set him to work?
OR to test if he is working?

Thanks
MArcos

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
Of Larry Hall
Sent: segunda-feira, 11 de Outubro de 2004 17:27
To: Marcos Rebelo; cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cron doesn't work

At 08:25 AM 10/11/2004, you wrote:
>I have the cron installed, my crontab is:
>*/2 *   *   *   *   perl -e 'open(FILE,
>">/cygdrive/c/deleteMe.txt") or die $!; print FILE (time."\n");
>close(FILE)'
>
>but nothing is going on.


I suggest you start with something easier (like '/bin/echo "hello"'), 
always use full paths, search the email archives for cron problems and
solutions, and read and follow the advice at:

>Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html



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