Re: problems with cron & permissions

On 08/08/2009 11:29 PM, michael trott wrote: I had already set Cron to run as my service from within Cygwin, and also under services.msc Cron is running as me. Are they the only two area's it need to me set? You want to re-run 'cron-config' specifying that you want to run the service as your u

Re: problems with cron & permissions

I had already set Cron to run as my service from within Cygwin, and also under services.msc Cron is running as me. Are they the only two area's it need to me set? thanks, i really appreciate it :) On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Reini Urban wrote: > 2009/8/8 michael trott: >> sure uve heard it

Re: problems with cron & permissions

2009/8/8 michael trott: > sure uve heard it all before. trying to get cron to backup my system > to a samba share thats mounted to a local drive. i can run the script > and back up fine. This is my crontab: Try the same as user SYSTEM and not as your local user and you will get the same error. Th

Re: Problems with cron

- Original Message - From: "Jörg Schreiber" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 11:31 AM Subject: Problems with cron Hi, I've installed cygwin and I'm very pleased with it. Now I want to use cron to run some kind of backup script where I need the possibilities of a rea

Re: problems with cron

Jeff Yemin wrote: I'm running cron as a service using cygrunsrv commands, and it seems to start ok. But it doesn't seem to be running the jobs. I put the date job in my crontab as a test, and I never see anything written to /tmp/cron.test. Here's my crontab: # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the

Re: Problems with cron and hibernation: a solution?

Xavier Nodet wrote: Hi all, I tried to look into the problem that cron does not gracefully wake up from hibernation[1]. Minor nit but you cannot awake from hibernation! Once hibernated the PC turns off! One must physically press the power button! I suspect you mean "standby" not "hibernation".

Re: Problems with cron and hibernation: a solution?

On Oct 20 17:29, Xavier Nodet wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:19:00 +0200 Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Erm?!? Last time I checked cron was still on version 3.0.1. > > It seems that the original source is at > > and version 4.1 (the only one t

Re: Problems with cron and hibernation: a solution?

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:19:00 +0200 Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erm?!? Last time I checked cron was still on version 3.0.1. It seems that the original source is at and version 4.1 (the only one there) is from 2004/01/23. -- Xavier Nodet "They t

Re: Problems with cron and hibernation: a solution?

On Oct 20 15:42, Xavier Nodet wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:10:58 +0200 Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Since that's not only a Cygwin issue, did you check upstream, if that > > problem has already been solved? > > I had not. But I just tried to find a newer version, and found

Re: Problems with cron and hibernation: a solution?

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:10:58 +0200 Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since that's not only a Cygwin issue, did you check upstream, if that > problem has already been solved? I had not. But I just tried to find a newer version, and found one on

Re: Problems with cron and hibernation: a solution?

On Oct 20 11:56, Xavier Nodet wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:03:04 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Xavier Nodet <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The attached patch corrects this problem > > Here is the patch again, un-encoded and un-signed, hoping to better > conform to the posting guidelines..

Re: Problems with cron and hibernation: a solution?

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:03:04 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Xavier Nodet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The attached patch corrects this problem Here is the patch again, un-encoded and un-signed, hoping to better conform to the posting guidelines... -- Xavier Nodet "They that can give up essentia

RE: Problems with cron - Almost there

Thanks that did it! -Original Message- From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 2:02 PM To: Vince Hoffman; 'Jarrod Hermer'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Elfyn McBratney'; 'Harig, Mark' Subject: RE: Problems with cron - Almo

RE: Problems with cron - Almost there

Doh sorry thats */5 * * * * "command" > -Original Message- > From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 July 2003 12:56 > To: 'Jarrod Hermer'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: 'Elfyn McBratney'; 'Harig, Mark' > Subject:

RE: Problems with cron - Almost there

atney'; 'Harig, Mark' > Subject: RE: Problems with cron - Almost there > > > Thanks for the help, that seemed to solve my problem. > > Now I seem to be stumped by a simple problem. I have read all the cron > and crontab man pages but still cannot seemed to get my

RE: Problems with cron - Almost there

to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:45 AM To: Jarrod Hermer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Problems with cron >From your cygcheck text, here are some of your mount points: C:\cygwin / userbinmode C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin userbinmode C:\cygwin/li

RE: Problems with cron

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Harig, Mark wrote: > >From your cygcheck text, here are some of your mount > points: > > C:\cygwin / userbinmode > C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin userbinmode > C:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib userbinmode > > These likely need to be 'system' mount points instead o

RE: Problems with cron

>From your cygcheck text, here are some of your mount points: C:\cygwin / userbinmode C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin userbinmode C:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib userbinmode These likely need to be 'system' mount points instead of 'user' mount points. This situation probably came a

RE: Problems with cron

tails. The following information is part of the event: cron : PID 3064 : `cron' service stopped. Thanks in advance. -Original Message- From: Harig, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:12 PM To: Jarrod Hermer; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Problems with c

RE: Problems with cron

About your crontab file: * * * * root echo "Hello World!" 1. 'root' is not a valid value for the fifth field, which should be the day of the week. Possible values: '*', 0-7 (Sunday is 0 or 7), or use names of days. More details can be read in the manual page for crontab. Enter '