I want to use cron on my laptop to run backup jobs to a network disk regularly. Therefore, I first used crontab: crontab myCrontabFile and then used cron-config to start the cron daemon.
I no longer remember the exact questions, but there are some issues. 1. cron-config asked about my password, and it was visible in cleartext when I entered it. Is that a bug? 2. What is the password used for? A policy forces me to change password on my Windows account every 60 days. Will the cron daemon try to use the old password, so that I will be locked out from the account? If that happens, it will be difficult to fix, because I cannot login. 3. After I enabled cron, I installed a program. It took much longer than expected, 35 minutes instead of 2-5 minutes. Meanwhile, there were many (> 10 each) processes that used a lot of memory: cron.exe (1.5M) sh.exe (3.6M) I manually killed these processes, and the intallation could finally finnish. The crontab at this time consisted of "touch filename" every minute. Shouldn't load the CPU. Is this a known issue? Any hints are appreciated. Best regards, Helge -- 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/
