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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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