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Re: Cron Problems
- From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin at exposure dot org dot uk>
- To: "cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>,"Wu Yongwei" <adah at netstd dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 04:02:18 -0000
- Subject: Re: Cron Problems
- References: <3E2F65D1.8080406@netstd.com>
> Thanks. However, where can I find the options of cron? Now I only find
> some info in /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README, but only in the ChangeLog
> section, which I ignored on the first reading!
There are only two options you can pass to cron. 1) -D (got the meaning
wrong the last time; Means don't fork) and 2) -x which is a debugging option
which prints out, well, debugging info ;-)
> And what is the use of the option -a?
When I referred to the `-a' option I was talking about cygrunsrv. The `-a'
option takes the arguments you wish to pass to the executable, cron.exe,
and when the service is started it is started with those arguments. For
example, taken from cron.README:
$ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
Regards,
Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@exposure.org.uk
www.exposure.org.uk
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