X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,BOTNET,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <020c01c9c2c3$f71687f0$940410ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: "Ting Zhou" Cc: References: <1255DA8CFF890A44B8F034ADB81D1A6031B1A274D2@guardianmx.guardian.lan> <01c901c9c2a5$d07ec0d0$940410ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> <1255DA8CFF890A44B8F034ADB81D1A6031B1A274E2@guardianmx.guardian.lan> Subject: Re: cron does not do anything Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:58:44 -0400 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ting Zhou" <> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:33 PM Thanks for the quick response. The crontab line is literally like: 28 19 * * * /usr/bin/touch /tmp/abcd Pierre, attached is the fgrep result of all the logs in /var/log. "cron.log" was created but is empty all along. Let me know if I can supply further diagnostic information. ****************** Right, cron does nothing. But ... The job is supposed to run at 19:28 every day You started cron at 19:26:30, it's not clear if the crontab existed then. You edited the crontab at 19:27:19 When 19:28 came, cron reloaded the crontab but did not run anything. I don't know if it's by design or not, you are playing it close. Have you tried using * * * * * in the crontab while you are debugging this? Also try running a command like "env" that produces an output. It should appear in ~/cron.log or in /tmp/cronXXXX if there is a problem. Finally your group is mkgroup-l-d. This suggests that /etc/group may not be up to date. Pierre -- 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/