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Re: How to set up crontab file in cygwin?
- From: posting-list at MailAndNews dot com (Jari Aalto+list.cygwin)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:48:25 +0200
- Subject: Re: How to set up crontab file in cygwin?
- Keywords: cron,cygwin,cygrunsrv,service,error
- References: <LIEBJAJMJFLPHGCPMEBGAEAECJAA.jklcom@mindspring.com>
* Mon 2002-01-28 Jeff Lu <jklcom@mindspring.com> list.cygwin
* Message-Id: <LIEBJAJMJFLPHGCPMEBGAEAECJAA.jklcom@mindspring.com>
| This is what is in my cron file
|
| # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
| # (/tmp/crontab.272 installed on Mon Jan 28 18:22:31 2002)
| # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.3 2001/06/07 17:12:28 corinna Exp $)
| SHELL=/bin/sh
| 0-59/2 * * * * /c/progra~1/apache~1/apache/cgi-bin/print
|
| I got this when try to start service
| $ cygrunsrv -S cron
| cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062:
| The service has not been started.
|
| What am I doing wrong?
The cron is very picky, I fought with it 4 months with very odd
error messages until I got it right. Try this [do not change a thing!]
cygrunsrv --stop "Cygwin cron" && cygrunsrv --remove "Cygwin cron"
cygrunsrv -I "Cygwin cron" -p /usr/sbin/cron -a '-D' -e "CYGWIN=ntsec"
cygrunsrv --start "Cygwin cron"
I don't use NTFS in W2k Pro, but I still put the
CYGWIN=ntsec
Maybe someone can comment if there would be more appropriate value.
Jari
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