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Re: How to start and verify cron?
It's curious that when I bring up the default "Packages" view, filtering
for "syslog-ng" doesn't find anything. I had to switch to the Categories
view, and then filtering for that found it.
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 4:04 PM Brian Inglis <
Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote:
> On 2019-07-10 16:15, David Karr wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:20 AM Brian Inglis wrote:
> > On 2019-07-10 10:55, David Karr wrote:
> > > I've checked the user guide and the FAQ, and I can't find any
> information
> > > about how to start cron and verify that it's working. I found
> other blog
> > > posts on other sites, but some of them are old.
> >
> > Did you run service setup script /bin/cron-config to set up the
> service?
> > When I ran that now, it says "Cron is already installed as a service
> under
> > account ...", so I assume that means that I did.
> > > I had installed cron, and I thought it was working, but now I
> think that it
> > > is not. If I edit "~/crontab" and then run "crontab -l", it lists
> the
> > > changes I've made to jobs, so at least that is working. The real
> job I
> > > have didn't appear to be doing what it was supposed to be doing,
> so I added
> > > a new trivial job that just appends output from "date" to a file
> in my
> > > homedir, and after the scheduled time of the job, the file was not
> created.
> >
> > Messages from cron and other active services should be visible in
> the Windows
> > application event log if you have not set up a syslog service.
> > I went through it, but I didn't see any indications of issues with
> cron. I'm
> > not sure what to look for, or where in the event log interface.
> > > This is the additional job I added:
> > >
> > > 40,42,44 * * * * date >> /home/<myuid>/date.txt
> > >
> > > I did find a "/var/log/cron.log", but it is empty, and the modtime
> is from
> > > a few months ago.
> > >
> > > One blog post I found talks about running "cygrunsrv -I cron -p
> > > /usr/sbin/cron -a -D". I just did this, and it reports "The
> specified
> > > service already exists."
> > >
> > > This is my uname -a output:
> > >
> > > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 ... 3.0.3(0.338/5/3) 2019-03-09 19:12 x86_64
> Cygwi
> > For a more Unix like and self contained Cygwin approach, install
> syslog-ng, run
> > service setup scripts /bin/cygserver-config /bin/syslog-ng-config
> > /bin/cron-config, add service dependencies to start up in that
> order, and you
> > should see cron messages in /var/log/syslog if you run elevated: you
> can also
> > run chmod elevated to make /var/log/syslog world readable, or
> setfacl to add
> > user or group read ACLs.
> > How do I add service dependencies to start up in a particular order?
>
> In an elevated cmd or bash shell:
> elevated > OR # sc config syslog-ng depend= cygserver
> elevated > OR # sc config cron depend= syslog-ng/cygserver
> N.B. the "=" is part of each keyword; multiple service dependencies are
> separated by "/".
>
> --
> Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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