crontab and windows 2003

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Kevin Markle wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm attempting to setup crontab on a windows 2003 box and am having 
> problems getting the jobs to run. I have tried running the service as a 
> local administrater and domain admin and the service starts and stops 
> and then tells me that "some services will only start when needed". I 
> have tested the file (test.bash) from the command line and it runs the 
> way it is supposed to. So I know the file is okay. Here is a copy of my 
> crontab file:
> 
> # min   hour    day (1-31) Month (1-12) day of week (0 -6)
> 1       15      *       *       *       /test.bash &
> 
> I checked the cygwin user guide and found nothing about setting up the 
> crontab service. Is there any place were these kindof instructions are 
> located? If you have any suggestions please let me know!
> 

Read '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README'.  Use '/usr/bin/cron-config' to
configure 'cron' for use.  '/usr/bin/cron_diagnose.sh' can be used to help
diagnose problems with your installation after running '/usr/bin/cron-config'.

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