On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Linden Glen wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Is there anywhere I can get some detailed > > documentation about using Cron? ie. examples, > > explanations, etc.... better than crontab --help > > > > Also, if I setup a Cron job, does it require that the > > server be logged in? or does it run as a service? > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > A search on google for "crontab howto" or "crontab tutorial" will give you the > answer to your first question.
And /usr/doc/cron*.README , of course. > Cron can run as a service (on NT/200[03]/XP/) or started from the command line > (in-case of 9x/Me it's the only way as the SCM is an NT'ism). A service run's in > the background and does not require a user to be logged-in. > > For more, search the archives at <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/>. -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB | http://www.nongnu.org/wwwauth/ http://www.emcb.co.uk | http://www.emcb.co.uk/webauth/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wwwauth-users AT nongnu DOT org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
