Re: Trying to get cron working

[James Nallen <James dot Nallen at may dot ie>]

Hi,

I've just resolved my problem. It was a permissions problem. The Cron job 
was running but the script was not executing. I could not change the 
permissions on the files because the 'chmod' command did not work. Instead, 
as suggested on the FAQ page, I placed

#! /bin/sh

at the top of the script - that way, cygwin knows that it is an executable 
script.

Thanks,

Regards,

James Nallen,
NUI Maynooth,
Co. Kildare,
Ireland.

At 18:30 26/08/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>James Nallen schrieb am 2001-08-24, 18:05:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I just recently installed version 2.78.2.3 of cygwin.
>
>cygwin-1.3.2, setup-2.78.2.3
>
> >I'm trying to get the cron facility operatoional.
> >
> >I have done the following :
> >
> >(1) Set the cron facility as an NT/W2K service
> >
> >cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a '-D' -e CYGWIN="tty ntsec"
>
>Correct.
>
> >(2) I started the service:
> >
> >cygrunsrv -S cron
>
>Yes.
>
> >(3) I set up an Adminstrator crontab file
>
>Did you run:
>  $ crontab -e
>?
>
> >However, the job does not run.
>
>Are you sure?
>
> >The following errors appear in the Event Log:
> >
> >Event Type:    Information
> >Event Source:  /usr/sbin/cron
> >Event Category:        None
> >Event ID:      0
> >Date:          24/08/2001
> >Time:          17:55:59
> >User:          N/A
> >Computer:
> >Description:
> >The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be
> >found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information
> >or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The
> >following information is part of the event: /usr/sbin/cron : Win32 Process
> >Id = 0x19C : Cygwin Process Id = 0x2E8 : (Administrator) RELOAD
> >(tabs/Administrator).
>
>Here it reloads the tab file.
>No error.
>
> >Event Type:    Information
> >Event Source:  Cygwin
> >Event Category:        None
> >Event ID:      0
> >Date:          24/08/2001
> >Time:          17:56:02
> >User:          N/A
> >Computer:
> >Description:
> >The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Cygwin ) cannot be found.
> >The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or
> >message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following
> >information is part of the event: (Administrator) CMD
> >(/home/Administrator/test.out).
>
>Here it writes the file: test.out in Administrator's home dir, no error.
>
>It works for me™, (i did it like you did).
>
>Gerrit
>
>
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