Hi Mark, I rebooted my machine and now cron is working. Thanks, Smithesh.
-----Original Message----- From: Harig, Mark A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 12:42 PM To: Smithesh Ramachandran; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 2:00 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > 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. > > > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
