Crontab does not work, Windows 2000

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote:

> Crontab will not run on my Cygwin platform.
>
> I am using Cygwin 1.5.5 under Windows 2000 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4.
>
> I want to schedule some bash scripts using crontab. Each script runs
> perfectly fine on its own. I created the following crontab from the bash
> shell, located at /bin/bash:
>
>    # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
>    # (/tmp/crontab.1904 installed on Wed Nov 19 12:32:06 2003)
>    # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $)
>
>    33 12 * * * /usr/bin/bsh_ubcfxscript.txt
>
> When the time scheduled arrives, nothing happens. No error messages occur
> and the script does not execute.
>
> cygcheck.out is attached
>
> Thank you.

Did you check the Windows Event log?
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