Crontab does not work, Windows 2000

[Tim Ashman]

Igor

I have attached the windows event log. Can you help? Thanks.

Event Type:	Information
Event Source:	./crontab
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	0
Date:		11/18/2003
Time:		10:37:29 AM
User:		ECPACIFIC\ashmant
Computer:	TAYLORBILL
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( ./crontab ) cannot be found. 
The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or 
message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following 
information is part of the event: ./crontab : PID 596 : (ashmant) LIST 
(ashmant).


----Original Message Follows----
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
To: Tim Ashman <wolfgang_mx3@hotmail.com>
CC: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:00:32 -0500 (EST)

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?
	Igor
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