Pierre A. Humblet explained :
----- 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?
The service is running but the date on the file only changes when I
manually run it?
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
At the top of the file before the 1st cron entry or?? Sorry apparently
I must be cygwin stupid. I never had these problems with my crontab
file on the Sun box i used before..
Pierre
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