Thanks for letting me know the problem. It worked after giving some time. Rajashekar.
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Pierre A. Humblet <pierre.humb...@ieee.org> wrote: > At 06:22 PM 3/28/2010, Rajashekar Chintalapati wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I am trying to run a simple script using crontab. >> >> $ more /cygdrive/c/list >> ls -ltr /cygdrive/c/ > /tmp/li.txt >> >> $ crontab -l >> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. >> # (/tmp/crontab.ry22Lho7uW installed on Sun Mar 28 14:03:55 2010) >> # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie >> Exp $) >> 4 14 * * * /cygdrive/c/list >> >> > > <snip> > > >> Please find attachment - cronbug.txt >> It once run correctly, i am able to see in logs too. >> 2010/03/28 01:00:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 4060: (Administrator) >> RELOAD (tabs/Administrator) >> 2010/03/28 01:01:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 4068: (Administrator) >> CMD (/cygdrive/c/list > /tmp/error.log 2>&1) >> >> >> But after that not sure what went wrong, if i change the time, cron is >> not executing the /cygdrive/c/list. >> >> Can you please let us know what may be the problem. > > The problem is that you set the time in the crontab "just right" so that you > hope > cron will execute it at the next minute. > # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp > $) > 4 14 * * * /cygdrive/c/list > > Unfortunately for you, cron procrastinates. At the next minute cron reloads > the > crontab, but it only executes the commands at the following minute. > > 2010/03/28 01:00:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 4060: (Administrator) > RELOAD (tabs/Administrator) > 2010/03/28 01:01:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 4068: (Administrator) CMD > (/cygdrive/c/list > /tmp/error.log 2>&1) > > 2010/03/28 14:04:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 4060: (Administrator) > RELOAD (tabs/Administrator) > 2010/03/28 14:04:31 [Administrator] crontab: PID 1040: (Administrator) LIST > (Administrator) > > The first time you gave cron the extra minute it needed. The second time you > didn't. > > Pierre > > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
