cron in cygwin

[Sanjay Goel]

Thanks a lot both of you ...
I have used cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
and now cron is installed as a service in my win2k services .
I hope my cron jobs will run fine now ...
can u tell me how to test whether it works properly.
I wrote a script called test.sh containing "echo test" and wrote
*/2 * * * * /d/test.sh
but nothing came on my screen
I have not installed ssmtp so cant check that in mail ...

Thanks and Regards,
Sanjay
"Igor Pechtchanski" <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.4.44.0305071452260.3212-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu...
> On Wed, 7 May 2003, Bill C. Riemers wrote:
>
> > > This is *way* too complicated.  It's fine if you run other things
using
> > > sysvinit, but if all you want is cron, try the way described in
> > > /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README (you did read it, didn't you?  that
directory
> > > contains the necessary instructions specifically for the Cygwin
ports --
> > > see <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC28>).
> >
> > Yes, I did try the directions in the README, but they do not work.
> > "cygrunsrv" does not have -D option...
> >
> > cygrunsrv: unknown option -- D
>
> Bill, did you use the *exact* line from /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README?
>
> | Install as service like that:
> | cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
>                                             ^^
> The "-a" is a cygrunsrv option.  It tells cygrunsrv to pass the "-D"
> option to cron.
>
> > > Regarding your "NOTE 1" below -- is it reproducible?  Could you please
> > > post the output of "getfacl filename" before and after "chown
filename"?
> > > Perhaps Pierre or Corinna could comment on this?
> >
> > It reproduces 100% of the time.  I've tried it on several different
machines
> > as well..
> >
> > $ cd /etc
> > $ echo "hi" > foo.txt
> > $ chmod 600 foo.txt
> > $ getfacl foo.txt
> > # file: foo.txt
> > # owner: docbill
> > # group: None
> > user::rw-
> > group::---
> > mask:rwx
> > other:---
> >
> > $ chown SYSTEM foo.txt
> > $ getfacl foo.txt
> > # file: foo.txt
> > # owner: SYSTEM
> > # group: None
> > user::rw-
> > group::---
> > mask:rwx
> > other:---
>
> Looks fine to me.  What error do you get if you try "echo 'hi' >> foo.txt"
> after that?  What if you try it from a SYSTEM-owned shell?
> Igor
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