Thanks for the quick response. The crontab line is literally like: 28 19 * * * /usr/bin/touch /tmp/abcd
Pierre, attached is the fgrep result of all the logs in /var/log. "cron.log" was created but is empty all along. Let me know if I can supply further diagnostic information. Thanks, Ting > -----Original Message----- > From: William Sutton [mailto:will...@trilug.org] > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:26 AM > To: Pierre A. Humblet > Cc: Ting Zhou; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: cron does not do anything > > Did you check that your cron job line is formatted correctly? If your > line is literally of the form > > /usr/bin/touch /tmp/abcd > > then it definitely won't run because it is incorrectly written. > > William Sutton > > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ting Zhou" <> > > To: <cygwin@cygwin.com> > > > > > > I'd like to report a bug with Vixie cron. I have cygwin installed with > cron option. And I ran > > "cron-config" and set up everything. Cron-diagnose script didn't find any > problem. Cron service > > was also started without problem. However, cron just wouldn't run the > simple command I set up in > > the crontab "/usr/bin/touch /tmp/abcd". > > **************** > > Hi, > > > > On your system you have syslog running, instead of using the Windows > event log. > > That's fine, except that your syslog configuration now controls how the > cron log messages > > are handled. The current "cronbug" script is not smart enough to figure > that out > > and does not provide enough info to help you (everything looks normal to > me) > > > > Please send us in attachment the file containing the cron logs (if they > are kept). > > If it's very long, use "fgrep -i cron" to isolate relevant lines. > > Alternatively, stop both syslog and cron, then restart cron only, run the > cronbug script > > again and send us the output. > > > > 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/ > > > >
cron.log
Description: cron.log
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