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Re: crontab in Cygwin+Win98?


It doesn't work for me. I got the same error message. Following
is what I did and what I got.

First, I run cron in a cygwin bash shell window

	$ cron
or
	$ cron -D

It is OK. Then I test it by issuing

	$ crontab -l

What I get is an error message in the cygwin window:

	BASH: /usr/local/bin/crontab: Permission denied

and a message in a small window:

	Error Starting Program
	The CRONTAB.EXE file is
	linked to missing export NETAPI32.DLL: NetUserChangePassword.

I don't understand this message and have no clue how to deal with it.
Is there anything wrong in my use of cron/crontab or it should not be
used with win98 at all? Any hints?

Paul.

"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
> 
> Paul Y. Peng schrieb am 2001-07-05, 17:16:
> 
> > Dear Cygwin gurus,
> >
> > I just wonder whether any of you has successfully run cron/crontab in
> > Cygwin + win98. I checked the documents and archives of this list and
> > only found descriptions and discussions of them in WinNT/2K. If they
> > don't work in Win98, is there any equivalent program which can do a
> > job on a scheduled basis in Win98? I know Win98 has a task scheduler,
> > but I really like crontab in a Unix system. Any hints are highly
> > appreciated.
> 
> You can try to run cron with non forking mode (i hope so).
> 
> $ cron -D
> 
> gph
> 
> --
> =^..^=

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