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RE: Usage Of Cron and AT commands
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:24:20 +0100
- Subject: RE: Usage Of Cron and AT commands
On 18 August 2006 12:01, sujit.menon@tcs.com wrote:
> Hi CygWinners,
> I would like to know the syntax of crontab, cron and at commands for
> its use in task scheduling.
"man cron"
"man crontab"
'at' is a windows command using the windows task scheduler. It's more
straightforward to use cron with cygwin.
> Also, can we do a Cron or AT job using Cygwin installation?
Yes. Cron is preferable in this situation to at, as mentioned above.
> If yes, please tell me the procedure... How do we allow permission's
> for the cron job. What file needs to modified to add the user id.
Simple:
1. Read the docs. /usr/share/doc/cron has the generic cron documentation,
even more importantly /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README has the cygwin
specific stuff.
2. Use the supplied script /bin/cron-config to set it up correctly.
cheers,
DaveK
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