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Re: Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Markle" 
To: <cygwin>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...


| Larry Hall (Cygwin) explained on 3/15/2007 :
| > Kevin Markle wrote:
| >> Hello,
| >> 
| >> I'm attempting to install cron on a Windows 2003 machine and am somewhat 
| >> Unix challanged. Is there a documented procedure that works somewhere. It 
| >> seems that there are tons of posts out relating to this but they all seem 
| >> to offer different information. :o) I was wondering if anybody has had any 
| >> luck actually getting cron to work on a w3k machine. If possible I would 
| >> like to run the service with a Network login if not a local admin would 
| >> work...
| >
| > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README
| 
| I used that and it worked I have installed the service as a network 
| user | logged in as that user and created this crontab file but it 
| doesn't run. The file runs okay from command prompt but not from the 
| crontab file?

I assume you used cron-config
Does "ps -a" show cron running, and as the privileged user you created?
How do you know the file doesn't run?

| 
| 1       *       *       *       *       /time.bash > /dev/null 2>&1
| 
| In my reading I gathered that this was a way to get around intalling a 
| mail client.

It's surely safer to just put
MAILTO=""
in your cron file

Pierre

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