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Re: Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...


Pierre A. Humblet expressed precisely :
----- 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

I finally got it to work I wanted to thank you for attempting to help me...





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