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 Message-ID: <41580005.138ECCEC@dessent.net> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 04:56:53 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange cron problem References: <4157FBE6.4090706@redux.org.uk> <4157FD37.3020108@redux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com John Beranek wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/tmp/crontab.3144 installed on Mon Sep 27 12:06:29 2004) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $) > #* * * * * echo foo > 7 0,12 * * * * /usr/local/bin/update_cygwin_mirror Looks like you've got one too many '*', so that the command that cron is trying to run is actually whatever happens to be the first filename in the current directory. Brian -- 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/