It's curious that when I bring up the default "Packages" view, filtering for "syslog-ng" doesn't find anything. I had to switch to the Categories view, and then filtering for that found it.
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 4:04 PM Brian Inglis < brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote: > On 2019-07-10 16:15, David Karr wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:20 AM Brian Inglis wrote: > > On 2019-07-10 10:55, David Karr wrote: > > > I've checked the user guide and the FAQ, and I can't find any > information > > > about how to start cron and verify that it's working. I found > other blog > > > posts on other sites, but some of them are old. > > > > Did you run service setup script /bin/cron-config to set up the > service? > > When I ran that now, it says "Cron is already installed as a service > under > > account ...", so I assume that means that I did. > > > I had installed cron, and I thought it was working, but now I > think that it > > > is not. If I edit "~/crontab" and then run "crontab -l", it lists > the > > > changes I've made to jobs, so at least that is working. The real > job I > > > have didn't appear to be doing what it was supposed to be doing, > so I added > > > a new trivial job that just appends output from "date" to a file > in my > > > homedir, and after the scheduled time of the job, the file was not > created. > > > > Messages from cron and other active services should be visible in > the Windows > > application event log if you have not set up a syslog service. > > I went through it, but I didn't see any indications of issues with > cron. I'm > > not sure what to look for, or where in the event log interface. > > > This is the additional job I added: > > > > > > 40,42,44 * * * * date >> /home/<myuid>/date.txt > > > > > > I did find a "/var/log/cron.log", but it is empty, and the modtime > is from > > > a few months ago. > > > > > > One blog post I found talks about running "cygrunsrv -I cron -p > > > /usr/sbin/cron -a -D". I just did this, and it reports "The > specified > > > service already exists." > > > > > > This is my uname -a output: > > > > > > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 ... 3.0.3(0.338/5/3) 2019-03-09 19:12 x86_64 > Cygwi > > For a more Unix like and self contained Cygwin approach, install > syslog-ng, run > > service setup scripts /bin/cygserver-config /bin/syslog-ng-config > > /bin/cron-config, add service dependencies to start up in that > order, and you > > should see cron messages in /var/log/syslog if you run elevated: you > can also > > run chmod elevated to make /var/log/syslog world readable, or > setfacl to add > > user or group read ACLs. > > How do I add service dependencies to start up in a particular order? > > In an elevated cmd or bash shell: > elevated > OR # sc config syslog-ng depend= cygserver > elevated > OR # sc config cron depend= syslog-ng/cygserver > N.B. the "=" is part of each keyword; multiple service dependencies are > separated by "/". > > -- > Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada > > This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains > too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. > > -- > 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 > > -- 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
