Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Jarrod Hermer" To: Cc: "'Elfyn McBratney'" , "'Harig, Mark'" Subject: RE: Problems with cron - Almost there Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:51:15 +0200 Message-ID: <001601c34090$45beb420$2701a8c0@lonewolf> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean 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 job to run every 5 minuts. The following causes the hello.txt file to be generated every minute: * * * * * echo "Hello World" > /home/Jarrod/hello.txt So I would expect this to be execute every 5 minutes. It however seems to only run at 5 minutes past every hour. 5 * * * * echo "Hello World" > /home/Jarrod/hello.txt Thanks, Jarrod -----Original Message----- From: Harig, Mark [mailto:maharig@idirect.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:45 AM To: Jarrod Hermer Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Problems with cron From your cygcheck text, here are some of your mount points: C:\cygwin / user binmode C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin user binmode C:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib user binmode These likely need to be 'system' mount points instead of 'user' mount points. This situation probably came about if you selected setup.exe's "Install For" option "Just Me" instead of "All Users". Please run the attached updated cron_diagnose.sh script to see if it helps with your problem. -- 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/