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Help : can not get cron work
- From: "lin q" <linq936 at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:50:10 -0700
- Subject: Help : can not get cron work
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Hi,
I just installed a brand new cygwin on my WinXP machine, but I can not get
cron work for me. Here is how I did it:
1) "cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a ?D"
2) "crontab -e" to edit the crontab file, here is the dump out,
$ crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.2836 installed on Wed Jan 4 10:14:53 2006)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41
corinna Exp $)
16 10 * * * linq rsync -azv emperor:/dev/tools/*
/cygdrive/c/bin/tools
3) "cygrunsrv ?S cron"
If I go to "start" -->"Administritive tools" -->"service", I can see that
cron is started.
I tried that command in crontab, "rsync -azv emperor:/dev/tools/*
/cygdrive/c/bin/tools", it works fine if i run it on shell manually.
Any suggestion is highly appreciated.
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