crontab error

Fri May 23 18:17:00 GMT 2003

Which snapshot do I need? I'm a little neverous downloading when the author
says they may not work too.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: "Chuck Hamilton" <chuckh@softhome.net>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: crontab error


> On <http://cygwin.com/>, bottom-left corner of the screen, look for
> "snapshots".
> Igor
>
> On Fri, 23 May 2003, Chuck Hamilton wrote:
>
> > Sooo, how do I get "snapshots". I searched the package library and found
> > nothing. I am using the most recent cywin DLL - version 1.3.22-1.
> >
> > $ uname -a
> > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 QSD052234 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown
> > unknown Cygwin
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Larry Hall" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> > To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> > Cc: "Chuck Hamilton" <chuckh@softhome.net>
> > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 10:56 AM
> > Subject: Re: crontab error
> >
> >
> > > It would also answer the question of whether or not his Cygwin DLL
> > > is out of date.  I would've sworn I posted this link to another like
> > > query but I can't find it.  Anyway, during a recent psychic trance
> > > <mystical music seeps into the background>, I've been able to devine
> > > the problem and thus post this link as the answer:
> > >
> > > <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-06/msg01402.html>
> > >
> > > There.  Now we don't need the cygcheck output.  But boy do those
> > > psychic trances take allot out of you!  Please don't make me do this
> > > all the time.
> > >
> > > Larry
> > >
> > >
> > > Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > > Chuck,
> > > >
> > > > Are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files up to date?  The output of
> > > > "cygcheck -svr" (*attached*, as per
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>)
> > > > should show whether this is the case.
> > > > Igor
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 23 May 2003, Chuck Hamilton wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >>Didn't even know I was addressing a mailing list. I posted
originally to
> > a
> > > >>newsgroup. Anyway, here's the output.
> > > >>
> > > >>$ crontab -l
> > > >>no crontab for isscha
> > > >>
> > > >>As I said in a previous post I haven't been able to create a
crontab.
> > When I
> > > >>try I get a permissions error. See below.
> > > >>
> > > >>$ cat /tmp/crontab.1448
> > > >>50 8 * * * ~isscha/bin/test.sh
> > > >>
> > > >>$ crontab /tmp/crontab.1448
> > > >>chown: Invalid argument
> > > >>$
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>----- Original Message -----
> > > >>From: Harig, Mark A.
> > > >>To: Chuck Hamilton
> > > >>Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > > >>Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 3:43 PM
> > > >>Subject: RE: crontab error
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>Please address all replies to cygwin@cygwin.com.
> > > >>
> > > >>Please send to the mailing list the following as attachments:
> > > >>
> > > >>1. The output of 'crontab -l' ("ell", not "one")
> > > >>
> > > >>2. The output of 'cygcheck -srv > cygcheck.txt'
> > > >>
> > > >>This information will help readers of the mailing list to
> > > >>diagnose the problem that you are having.
> > > >>-----Original Message-----
> > > >>From: Chuck Hamilton [mailto:chuckh@softhome.net]
> > > >>Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 3:13 PM
> > > >>To: Harig, Mark
> > > >>Subject: Re: crontab error
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>Here's what I get...
> > > >>
> > > >>Your computer does not appear to have a crontab for isscha.
> > > >>Please generate a crontab for isscha using 'crontab -e',
> > > >>and run this script again.
> > > >>
> > > >>So I again try to generate a crontab with just a comment line in it
and
> > get
> > > >>this...
> > > >>
> > > >>$ crontab -e
> > > >>crontab: installing new crontab
> > > >>chown: Invalid argument
> > > >>crontab: edits left in /tmp/crontab.1660
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>----- Original Message -----
> > > >>From: "Harig, Mark A." <maharig@idirect.net>
> > > >>To: "Chuck" <chuckh@softhome.net>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> > > >>Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 12:06 PM
> > > >>Subject: RE: crontab error
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>Please run the attached script.
> > > >>It will check some file permissions
> > > >>and other details that need to be
> > > >>set up properly in order for cron to
> > > >>work.  It does NOT change anything
> > > >>on your computer, but only diagnoses.
> > > >>You may need to run it several times
> > > >>until it completes successfully (it
> > > >>will stop any time it finds a problem
> > > >>and report to you what problem needs
> > > >>to be corrected).
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>>-----Original Message-----
> > > >>>From: Chuck [mailto:chuckh@softhome.net]
> > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 9:27 AM
> > > >>>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > > >>>Subject: crontab error
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>>I need a little help getting cron to work. My apologies if
> > > >>>this is answered
> > > >>>somewhere else but I haven't been able to find it.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>I've installed cron as a win2k service using "cygrunsrv -I cron -p
> > > >>>/usr/sbin/cron -a -D -d "Cygwin cron" -e "CYGWIN=tty ntsec" "
> > > >>>as suggested
> > > >>>in another post. When I try to start the service I get "Could
> > > >>>not start the
> > > >>>cygwin cron service on local computer. The service did not
> > > >>>return an error.
> > > >>>This could be an internal Windows error or an internal service
error."
> > > >>>
> > > >>>When I try to create a crontab file with "crontab -e" and
> > > >>>save it I get the
> > > >>>following error "chown: Invalid argument".
> > > >>>
> > > >>>What do I need to do to fix these?
>
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