cron/crontab problems.

[Kyle Johnson]

Hi everyone,

I'm having some problems with cron & crontab in cygwin, running on 
Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Service Pack 4.

What:  I have two cronjobs setup, running at a 3 hour difference.  The 
first job runs at 7PM, Monday through Friday, and tar -cjPf's .DBF files 
in a certain directory.  The next script runs at 10PM, Monday through 
Friday, and tar -cjPf's * files in a certain directory.  These were 
working OK for a few days, then they stopped.  I noticed this when I 
checked on the backups the following day, and found that all of the 
recently made files were only 42b big, as opposed to 128MB or such.

If I run the contents of the scripts from the command line, everything 
works OK.

I have pasted all relevant information at http://paste.fixertec.net/5

Also, today, I ran 'crontab -e' from the command line, and I got the 
error from lines 30 to 34, at http://paste.fixertec.net/5.
I then ran 'net stop cron' and 'net start cron', which then allowed me 
to do a 'crontab -e' successfully.

Any ideas?

Thank you,


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Kyle Johnson
Fixertec <http://portal.fixertec.net/>
410-609-4191



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