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Re: Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...


Pierre A. Humblet explained :
----- 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?
The service is running but the date on the file only changes when I manually run it?


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

At the top of the file before the 1st cron entry or?? Sorry apparently I must be cygwin stupid. I never had these problems with my crontab file on the Sun box i used before..

Pierre




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