At 05:19 PM 11/19/2003, Tim Ashman you wrote: >I definitely installed Cygwin on my Windows 2k machine as "All Users". The crontab I >am creating is under my individual user name. When I remove my crontab file and type >the command "./crontab -l" it lists my username in the "no cronfile" response, which >by the way is on the network domain, not the domain of my machine. I don't think this >is a problem as I've checked out the /etc/passwd file, and it includes my username as >it does the computer administrator. > >I am running crontab in the bash shell, but the man pages mention the environmental >variable SHELL=/bin/sh. I tried including this in my crontab as well as running >crontab in sh, which doesn't work at all. > >Any suggestions? Thanks again!
No, not beyond my original suggestion (my WAG aside) of visiting <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> and providing the information it suggests. >------------------------------------------ > >At 01:47 PM 11/19/2003, Tim Ashman you wrote: >>I am having trouble with the Cron utility. I have written a fairly simple bash >>script that runs successfully on its own but does not work with crontab. I am >>working on a Windows 2K machine. I tried running a simlilar crontab on a linux >>machine and it worked fine. Two crontabs I have tried out: >> >>39 10 * * * ./test.txt >>39 10 * * * /usr/bin/test.txt >> >>No error messages are generated. Nothing at all happens when the crontab run time >>occurs. I've tried different crontab settings and have searched for a similar >>problem on the mailing list, but have had no luck. > >Really. I thought the email archives were literally full of references to >threads on cron. > >First, I'm going to direct you to <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>. >Providing good, accurate information about the problem, your system's >configuration, and the process you followed for setting up the service >(applicable in the case of cron) is always good form. But with the >information you've provided, I'll make the WAG that you installed Cygwin >as "Just for Me", which doesn't work if you want to run services. Either >reinstall or look at "man mount" to figure out how to change your mount >points from 'user' to 'system'. > >_________________________________________________________________ >Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. >http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca > > >-- >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/ -- 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/
