cron

Dear Cygwin: I set up cron per your suggestion with: $ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e "TZ=EST+5EDT,M4.1.0/M10.5.0" \-e "CYGWIN=ntsec tty" I still can not get cron to work after starting the service and crontabbing my crontab file. Does the Windows Scheduling service need to be s

[Fwd: cron/crontab]

--- Begin Message --- Dear Cygwin, I am eager to use cron to automate scripts running under cygwin 1.3.6-6 on Windows Nt 4 Server. I downloaded it with setup.exe and installed it with cygrunsrv. I created a file for my user in /var/cron/tabs. I crontabed it to get things going. I checked t

cron/crontab

Dear Cygwin, I am eager to use cron to automate scripts running under cygwin 1.3.6-6 on Windows Nt 4 Server. I downloaded it with setup.exe and installed it with cygrunsrv. I created a file for my user in /var/cron/tabs. I crontabed it to get things going. I checked to make sure it was runnin

chmod

Dear Developers, I am using cygwin 1.3.6-6 on Windows NT 4 Server SP 6 and cannot do a chmod on a file. The permissions just remain the same. I even did a chmod -v 600 on a file. The output showed that the permissions had changed. However, when I did an ls -la, the permissions remained the sa

uptime.c

Dear Developers, I am using cygwin 1.3.6-6 on Windows NT 4 Server. I need to know if uptime.c found in the Shell Utilties 2.0-2 dir will work on this platform when compiled. From the sh-utils-2.0-2 dir, I ran configure and then make check. Attached are two files which correspond to the beginni