Cron problem

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Orfeo Da Via wrote:

> Hi,
> I have the cron installed, my crontab is in attacged file crontab-l
> but nothing is going on.
>
> the attached files is generated by
> $ crontab -l > crontab-l.txt
> $ cron_diagnose.sh > crontab_dia.txt
> $ cygcheck -srv > cygcheck.txt

I'll quote your crontab inline to better comment on it:

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.580 installed on Fri Oct  7 14:09:56 2005)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41 corinna Exp $)
10 14 * * * /bin/date >> /usr/tmp/date.out;

First off, I'm not sure how cron will react to the semicolon at the end.
Secondly, you need to redirect stderr as well as stdout, or deal with cron
trying to mail you the output.

Try

10 14 * * * /bin/date >> /usr/tmp/date.out 2>&1

and see if that works for you (it should).  If not, take a look at
/var/log/cron.log and the Windows Event Log for any relevant messages from
cron.
HTH,
	Igor
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