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: <92b774de0507010740260e83f6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:40:08 -0400 From: Imran Merali Reply-To: imerali@cs.stevens.edu To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: cron issue Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050629175915.03cf4f98@pop.prospeed.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <92b774de050629140517ab8ab7@mail.gmail.com> <6.2.1.2.0.20050629175915.03cf4f98@pop.prospeed.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j61EePhw025098 I got things working. Thanks for your help. On 6/29/05, Larry Hall wrote: > At 05:25 PM 6/29/2005, you wrote: > >Imran Merali wrote: > > > >> I am trying to get cron to execute a bash script at a certain time, > >> but it is not doing so. The script itself works well, but it doesn't > >> seem to want to run when i set it up as a cron job. The same thing > >> happens when I try to do something simple like output a timestamp to a > >> text file each minute. This is a fresh install. Additionally, the line > >> in my crontab is identical to that in the crontab on my bsd machine. I > >> used cron_diagnose.sh, but it said my install was fine, with the > >> exception of a little issue with sendmail, which I tried to correct > >> with a symlink to a working mailer. > >[snip] > > > >First look into the Windows Event Viewer + Application, you should find a few > >events that have, among other things, the crond output. > > > Also look at '/var/log/cron.log' for info. > > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/