Hey Corinna, Thanks for the tip. Once I started redireting stdout and stderr everything seems to work and email event log messages went away.
# Test CRON tab from CraigR * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> $HOME/date.log 2>&1 * * * * * echo "Hello from CRON" >> /tmp/echo.log 2>&1 * * * * * touch $HOME/touch.log However, I am still getting Event log messages, one per crontab process with every run and now my Event log is full. Event log messages from WinNT: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) could not be found. It contains the following insertion string(s): /usr/sbin/cron : Win32 Process Id = 0x102 : Cygwin Process Id = 0x102 : (trendadm) CMD (echo "Hello from CRON" >> /tmp/echo.log 2>&1). Event log messages from Win2K: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following information is part of the event: /usr/sbin/cron : Win32 Process Id = 0x704 : Cygwin Process Id = 0x704 : (crees) CMD (/usr/bin/date >>$HOME/date.log 2>&1). I still think I have a configuration issue somewhere. Any ideas? Thanks much. - - -CraigR _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
