Cron Won't Run Jobs

I installed CYGWIN yesterday, and am having trouble getting cron to work. My cron job, set to run every minute, does not execute. I have read through the archives, and below is relevant data. I would appreciate any advice on what to try next chmod 1777 /var/cron chmod 1777 /var/cron/tabs cygru

Re: Cron Won't Run Jobs

I have the following line in monsql, and I don't see it, unless I run it manually: echo "Monsql executed on $(date)" >> /tmp/cron.log Here is the output from cygcheck -sv - Original Message - From: "Vince Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: Cron Won't Run Jobs

set to SYSTEM, and SYSTEM needs to have its value set to 18. > -Original Message- > From: Buck Turgidson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Cron Won't Run Jobs > > > I have the following line

Script Doesn't Work Correctly with Cron

I have a script that works when I run it from the command line, but when it is executed with cron, it produces a null file. I am sure that cron is executing it because it creates the file. It is just not populated. Here is the script. I want to query an Oracle database every couple of minutes,

Error Starting Cron

I had cron working perfectly, and executing my script appropriately. I rebooted, and now I get the following error upon loading cron. Any ideas as to what it means? cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: The service has not been started. This is what is in m

Cannot Start Cron

I am trying to start cron on a new installation of Cygwin on NT. My start script looks like this: cygrunsrv --stop cron cygrunsrv --remove cron cygrunsrv --install cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D cygrunsrv --start cron But I get the following error. If anyone recognizes it, and has any suggestions

Re: Cannot Start Cron

> > Look in the Windows "Application" event log for the exact error. > Igor > -- The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( cron ) could not be found. It contains the following insertion string(s): cron : PID 495 : `cron' service stopped. Thanks, Igor. Any clues here? Permissions on /va

Re: Cannot Start Cron

"Harig, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please run the attached diagnostic script. It will attempt to determine whether there are any problems with the various files needed by cron. It does NOT modify any files (which you can verify for yourself by reading the sc

Re: Cannot Start Cron

"Harig, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If none of this fixes the problem, then report your problem > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please include a copy of your crontab, > ('crontab -l') and the output of 'cygcheck -srv > cygcheck.txt'. > > PLEASE include the generate

Re: Cannot Start Cron

"Harig, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is a new version of the cron diagnostic script. It contains another test suggested and provided by Pierre Humblet. The new test checks to see if there is a password entry that corresponds to the values in the environm

Re: Cannot Start Cron

Please check your C:\WINNT40 for other utilities, such as 'cron.exe'. Consider deleting these programs, or moving them to another directory in your PATH. 3. Please examine your /var/log/cron.log to see if it provides any useful messages. 4. Please provide a copy of your crontab: $ crontab -