Cool. Will get ssmtp also. Thanks. Smithesh.
-----Original Message----- From: Harig, Mark A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 2:41 PM To: Smithesh Ramachandran; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: cygwin crontab -- IT WORKS .... You'll likely also want to install the Cygwin ssmtp package so that cron can send you email when it has problems or other information to report. > -----Original Message----- > From: Smithesh Ramachandran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:38 PM > To: Harig, Mark A.; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: cygwin crontab -- IT WORKS .... > > > 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/
