Running bash from cron

I have had much success running cygwin bash scripts from cron (Kalab's crons.exe), however on new machines I install cygwin on, the bash scripts don't run at all. the scripts are run from crons like 12 12 * * * * c:\cygwin\bin\bash c:\cygwin\tmp\mybash.sh Is there some enviornment setup I am mi

Re: Running bash from cron

Thanks Igor. I already uninstalled crons and did this cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D cygrunsrv -S cron I put a simple script in there like this 51 * * * * /tmp/doit.sh ran crontab `cat the above file` crontab -l yields above net stop cron net start cron < i realize this may not be req

Re: Running bash from cron

thanks, I didn't know about the config script, I had to chmod group passwd and a couple of other things. Thanks again. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Running-bash-from-cron-t1054952.html#a2747650 Sent from the Cygwin Users forum at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Running bash from cron

ok, I spoke too soon, it runs but when I log off it doesn't. I am admin level. There are no logs. What can I check ? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Running-bash-from-cron-t1054952.html#a2748116 Sent from the Cygwin Users forum at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: ht