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RE: Problems with cron - Almost there
- From: Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>
- To: Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>, "'Jarrod Hermer'" <jarrod at mybeat dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: "'Elfyn McBratney'" <elfyn at cygwin dot com>, "'Harig, Mark'" <maharig at idirect dot net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:01:46 +0100
- Subject: RE: Problems with cron - Almost there
Doh sorry thats
*/5 * * * * "command"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:Vince.Hoffman@uk.circle.com]
> Sent: 02 July 2003 12:56
> To: 'Jarrod Hermer'; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc: 'Elfyn McBratney'; 'Harig, Mark'
> Subject: RE: Problems with cron - Almost there
>
>
> I think the format for every 5 minutes is
> /5 * * * * touch /tmp/test.file
>
> read man 5 crontab rathe than just man crontab.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jarrod Hermer [mailto:jarrod@mybeat.net]
> > Sent: 02 July 2003 12:51
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Cc: 'Elfyn McBratney'; 'Harig, Mark'
> > Subject: RE: Problems with cron - Almost there
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the help, that seemed to solve my problem.
> >
> > Now I seem to be stumped by a simple problem. I have read
> all the cron
> > and crontab man pages but still cannot seemed to get my job
> > to run every
> > 5 minuts. The following causes the hello.txt file to be
> > generated every
> > minute:
> >
> > * * * * * echo "Hello World" > /home/Jarrod/hello.txt
> >
> > So I would expect this to be execute every 5 minutes. It
> however seems
> > to only run at 5 minutes past every hour.
> >
> > 5 * * * * echo "Hello World" > /home/Jarrod/hello.txt
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jarrod
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harig, Mark [mailto:maharig@idirect.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:45 AM
> > To: Jarrod Hermer
> > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: RE: Problems with cron
> >
> > From your cygcheck text, here are some of your mount
> > points:
> >
> > C:\cygwin / user binmode
> > C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin user binmode
> > C:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib user binmode
> >
> > These likely need to be 'system' mount points instead of
> > 'user' mount points. This situation probably came about
> > if you selected setup.exe's "Install For" option "Just Me"
> > instead of "All Users". Please run the attached updated
> > cron_diagnose.sh script to see if it helps with your
> > problem.
> >
> >
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