cron/crontab problems.

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Kyle Johnson wrote:
> 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?


Sure.

   1.  Install, read the README, and run rebaseall.
   2.  Try a snapshot <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>.
   3.  Follow the problem reporting guidelines if one of the 2 options above
       doesn't fix your problem <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.


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