Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...

[Kevin Markle]

Larry Hall (Cygwin) explained on 3/15/2007 :
> Kevin Markle wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm attempting to install cron on a Windows 2003 machine and am somewhat 
>> Unix challanged. Is there a documented procedure that works somewhere. It 
>> seems that there are tons of posts out relating to this but they all seem 
>> to offer different information. :o) I was wondering if anybody has had any 
>> luck actually getting cron to work on a w3k machine. If possible I would 
>> like to run the service with a Network login if not a local admin would 
>> work...
>
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README

I used that and it worked I have installed the service as a network 
user | logged in as that user and created this crontab file but it 
doesn't run. The file runs okay from command prompt but not from the 
crontab file?

1       *       *       *       *       /time.bash > /dev/null 2>&1

In my reading I gathered that this was a way to get around intalling a 
mail client.




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