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RE: cron.hourly
- From: "Reid Thompson" <Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com>
- To: "Totte Karlsson" <tkarlsson at qm dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:58:58 -0400
- Subject: RE: cron.hourly
Totte Karlsson wrote:
> Hi,
> I have started cron as a service under Windows 2000. I
> 'naively' created a directory, /etc/cron.hourly and put a
> script in there. I had hoped that cron would execute the
> script once every hour but it does not work.
>
> How do I get the folders /etc/cron.hourly, etc/cron.daily
> etc/cron.weekly correctly working in cygwin? regards -totte
$ cat exampleCronFile
#* * * * * command to be executed
#- - - - -
#| | | | |
#| | | | +----- day of week (1 - 7) (monday = 1)
#| | | +------- month (1 - 12)
#| | +--------- day of month (1 - 31)
#| +----------- hour (0 - 23)
#+------------- min (0 - 59)
05 15 5 2 * /path/to/executable >/path/to/logfile
will execute the executable at 3:15 PM on the 5th of the second month
and it doesn't care which day of the week that is.
reid
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