----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Markle" To: <cygwin> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:45 PM Subject: Re: Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...
| Larry Hall (Cygwin) explained on 3/15/2007 : | > Kevin Markle wrote: | >> Hello, | >> | >> I'm attempting to install cron on a Windows 2003 machine and am somewhat | >> Unix challanged. Is there a documented procedure that works somewhere. It | >> seems that there are tons of posts out relating to this but they all seem | >> to offer different information. :o) I was wondering if anybody has had any | >> luck actually getting cron to work on a w3k machine. If possible I would | >> like to run the service with a Network login if not a local admin would | >> work... | > | > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README | | I used that and it worked I have installed the service as a network | user | logged in as that user and created this crontab file but it | doesn't run. The file runs okay from command prompt but not from the | crontab file? I assume you used cron-config Does "ps -a" show cron running, and as the privileged user you created? How do you know the file doesn't run? | | 1 * * * * /time.bash > /dev/null 2>&1 | | In my reading I gathered that this was a way to get around intalling a | mail client. It's surely safer to just put MAILTO="" in your cron file Pierre -- 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/
