----- Original Message ----- From: "Ting Zhou" <> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:20 PM
Right on, Pierre! Thanks a lot for the clue. Finally I figured it out. There were two problems. The first problem, yes, I was a bit impatient and should've waited one more minute. It seems crontab change does take more than one minute to be effective. Once I changed it to "* * * * *", I saw an error message in /var/log/messages saying "(CRON) error (can't cd to HOME)", which is the second problem. For the record, my cygwin auto-generated /etc/passwd shows my home dir to be "/cygdrive/h", which is an NT mounted share - not sure why is it set to that and why cron couldn't cd to it. Anyway, I changed it to "/home/tzhou" and viola, the cron is working. ************** To be able to use /cygdrive/h try running cron as yourself. That's an option in cron-config 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/
