How to set up crontab file in cygwin?

Gerrit P. Haase gerrit@familiehaase.de
Sat Feb 2 14:27:00 GMT 2002


Am 31 Jan 2002 um 21:48 hat Jari Aalto+list.cygwin geschrieben:

>* 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.

Have you tried CYGWIN=ntea instead of ntsec?

Gerrit-- 
=^..^=


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