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Re: Cron Issues
Disregard this message as it was a problem with another application
using its own cygwin1.dll.
On 8/29/05, madjaejorl <madjaejorl@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having problems getting cron to successfully process my crontab.
> It appears as if my cron service is successfully installed and
> running, but it just doesn't seem to execute my crontab. First, I'd
> like to note that I am able to run the cron service via
> /usr/sbin/cron.exe and everything works fine. My crontab gets
> processed and everything works as I expect. I'm guessing theres a
> problem with the way cron-config installed the service on my Win2k
> machine. I tried cron_diagnose, and it tells me "This script did not
> find any errors in your cron setup." Now, it does give me warnings
> for not having a mailer installed, but I figure that's not a necessity
> in getting this to work.
>
> A "ps" output indicates that cron is running. Also, nothing is ever
> written to my /var/log/cron.log file. I'm figuring it is some sort of
> permission problem, but I've checked everything, and cant figure it
> out. I think the most important thing to note is that once my cron
> service is installed, I am able to start it ok, but it always times
> out when trying to shut it down (cygrunsrv --stop cron). I end up
> having to kill -9 the cron process in order to get it to stop. I've
> tried to install the service using cron-config under a local account
> as well as the SYSTEM account, but haven't had any luck. Can anybody
> point me in the right direction?
>
> jorels
>
> $ crontab -l
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.380 installed on Mon Aug 29 01:00:32 2005)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41 corinna
> Exp $)
> * * * * * echo `date` >> /echo.txt
>
> attached is the cygcheck.txt file.
>
>
>
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