On 2018-01-15 13:48, Chris Johnson wrote: > Bit of a conundrum here. Running WIN7 and cygwin64. Have the terminal > running > and Perl is installed and runs. AFAIK, that all works. Used cygrunsrv to get > cron going. I can see cron in a ps -af in the terminal. I set up a crontab > for > my user and it's in /var/cron/tabs by using crontab -e. > > Doesn't seem to be running anything in the crontab. I had wanted to run a > Perl > script in a Windows Directory outside the cygwin structure but using the > /cygdrive/c etc path. Ain't working. Even tried the simplest thing I could > think of and created a line date > dt.txt on it. Normally, under *nix this > would put the results of date in dt.txt in the home directory. Not there.
Use /proc/cygdrive/c/... in case it ever changes, and specify absolute paths for scripts and commands, as only minimal environments are setup, and non-interactive shell startup scripts run. Might need to specify other environment variables required in the crontab. Ensure your perl script has Cygwin +x permissions and hashbang line. > Just isn't running anything as far as I can tell. > > Any suggestions. I'd like to get this working. Want am I missing? Help > appreciated. Thank you Add cron users to /var/cron/cron.allow (and maybe also a cron group), or touch /var/cron/cron.deny to allow all users: see crontab(1). Check /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d/* are owned and writable only by the crond user if they exist; /var/run/cron.pid and /var/log/cron.log exist and are owned and writable only by the crond user; /var/cron/tabs/* exist and are owned by their users and writable only by their owners; /var/run/cron.pid contains the cron pid, and see what's in /var/log/cron.log. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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
