On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Suresh Kumar wrote: > Dear Igor: > > I am a database architect and using cygwin (win implementation) to do > some scripting. > > I am aware that cron is an excellent scheduler and would like to get > my hands on this resource. Can u please walk me thru of how I can go > about doing this?? > > BTW, I am a newbie in cygwin and any resource that will educate me on > the cron subject would be much appreciated. > > Thanks > Suresh Kumar
Suresh, It is generally considered bad netiquette to send unsolicited private mail with Cygwin questions to members of the Cygwin community. There's a mailing list dedicated to all things Cygwin (see <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE> for a list of reasons to use it). I'm redirecting this reply to the list, and setting Reply-To: accordingly. As for cron documentation, whatever is included in the Cygwin cron package is pretty useful -- see first of all the Cygwin-specific cron readme in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README, and then the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/cron/README (and the man pages at "man cron" and "man crontab"). Other people on the list may have more information on this. Please direct any further Cygwin-related cron questions to the main Cygwin list. If you have further general questions about cron, try some other resource, such as a cron-specific newsgroup. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/
