RE: cygwin crontab

["Harig, Mark A." <maharig at idirect dot net>]

One other thing might also be necessary...

After you have set the directories' permissions, shut
down the cron service and restart it.

  $ cygrunsrv -E cron
  $ cygrunsrv -S cron

If you want to be really sure, then shut down the service,
uninstall it, reinstall it, and restart it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harig, Mark A. 
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:34 PM
> To: Smithesh Ramachandran; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: cygwin crontab
> 
> 
> 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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