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How to start and verify cron?
- From: David Karr <davidmichaelkarr at gmail dot com>
- To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:55:27 -0700
- Subject: How to start and verify cron?
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.
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.
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 Cygwin
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