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cron ignores my settings
- To: "Cygwin Maillist" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: cron ignores my settings
- From: "Devin McRorie" <Devin_McRorie at ingersoll-rand dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 08:54:12 -0400
- HOP-COUNT: 1
I'm having a devil of a time getting cron to do anything under cygwin. Is
there a way to do diagnostics, or see cron error info or check how cron is
setup to figure out why it isn't working?
I am logged in as Administrator on a Windows 2000 machine. I use crontab
-e to put in a task. The task is:
40 08 * * * /u/srcmail/sh/runmc
Of course the header information is all about not editing the crontab file
directly. I left that out since we've all seen it. I've even tried
setting the runmc script with chmod +x which doesn't seem to do anything as
ls still shows it has no execute privilege. Please note that the runmc
script does execute and work properly when I call it manually! So the
problem is probably with cron or the cygwin setup.
I really appreciate your help!
Devin McRorie
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Devin McRorie
Ingersoll-Rand Company
devin_mcrorie@irco.com
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