cygwin crontab

[Harig, Mark A.]

It's also important to get the permissions of the /var/cron/ and
/var/cron/tabs/
directories set correctly.  As the file /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README
says, there is a 'postinstall' script that should have set these for
you, but they may have been changed to incorrect settings:

   $ chmod 1777 /var/cron
   $ chmod 1777 /var/cron/tabs

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Smithesh Ramachandran [mailto:smithesh@ticketmaster.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:06 PM
> To: Harig, Mark A.; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: cygwin crontab
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I did the following to start the server.
> cygrunsrv -S cron
> 
> And I see it running:
> admin@TMLA-SRAMACHAND /tmp
> $ ps -ef|grep cron
>   SYSTEM    2084    2068   ?  13:49:45 /usr/sbin/cron
> 
> Also tried checking the below date example in crontab. Still 
> not running.
> 
> Stopped and started again, but still not working. Hoping for 
> your help.
> The cron version I'm running is 3.0.1-7. 
> 
> Thank you,
> Smithesh.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harig, Mark A. [mailto:maharig@idirect.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 12:42 PM
> To: Smithesh Ramachandran; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: cygwin crontab
> 
> 
> After installing the service (using the '-I' option), you 
> need to start
> the service using the '-S' option.
> 
> Debug one problem at a time.  Instead of trying to get your 
> perl script
> to work via 'cron', try to get the 'date' command to work, 
> for example:
> 
>    * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/date.txt
> 
> Once you have that working, you can work on the perl script problem.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Smithesh Ramachandran [mailto:smithesh@ticketmaster.com]
> > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 2:00 PM
> > To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> > Subject: cygwin crontab
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Corinna,
> > I'm having trouble with cygwin crontab. Basically, I'm 
> trying to run a
> > cygwin perl script that does some scp from windows using 
> > windows putty-scp
> > to linux and solaris boxes. I've tested the cygwin perl script with
> > putty-scp and it works well, but not with cron.
> > 
> > I'm not sure if the following command will start the cron 
> > server on cygwin.
> > But I executed this.
> > cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
> > 
> > I got the above info from /usr/docs/Cygwin/cron.README
> > 
> > I'm not getting any basic cron stuff working also. Please help.
> > Thanks,
> > Smithesh.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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