Re: Help : can not get cron work

["lin q" <linq936 at hotmail dot com>]

> From: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Help : can not get cron work
> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:00:46 -0800
>
> lin q wrote:
>
> >   1) "cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a ?D"
>
> You should run /usr/bin/cron-config, and not try to do this by hand
> because there is much more to do than just installing the service.
>
> >             16 10 * * * linq  rsync -azv emperor:/dev/tools/*
> > /cygdrive/c/bin/tools
>
> That is not the proper format of a user's crontab line.  There is no
> such "username" field as the fifth field in a user's crontab, it should
> just be "16 10 * * * rsync ...".  It was trying to execute a command
> named "linq" that does not exist, and there should be errors to this
> effect in the Windows Event Log.  See "man 5 crontab".
>
> Also realize that if you do not have system-wise mounts and Cygwin in
> the PATH the above will not work.  This would have been evident if you
> attached the cygcheck output as requested in
> <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.
>
> Brian
>
>
> --
OK, I re-installed cron using /usr/bin/cron-config and I corrected crontab 
by removing that "linq".

It still does not work.

I tried a Hello Wold test with the following crontab line,

* * * * * /bin/date > /tmp/date.out 2>&1

It works fine.

Now I come to suspect something of Cygwin setup. But I can not see anything 
wrong in log file of cygcheck. I attach the file.

One thing to note, when I run cygcheck, it exits with an error,
> cygcheck -svr > /tmp/cygcheck.log
cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed: 1231

Is this a problem?

Another thing, I checked the Windows event loger and I see some 
"Information" on crontab, here is the dump out:

The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be 
found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or 
message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be 
able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and 
Support for details. The following information is part of the event: 
/usr/sbin/cron : PID 6064 : (linq) CMD (rsync -azv emperor:/dev/swtools/* 
/cygdrive/c/bin/swtools).

Do you understand what it is about?

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