Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...

[Kevin Markle]

After serious thinking René Berber wrote :
> Kevin Markle wrote:
>
>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) explained on 3/15/2007 :
>>> Kevin Markle wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm attempting to install cron on a Windows 2003 machine and am
>>>> somewhat Unix challanged. Is there a documented procedure that works
>>>> somewhere. It seems that there are tons of posts out relating to this
>>>> but they all seem to offer different information. :o) I was wondering
>>>> if anybody has had any luck actually getting cron to work on a w3k
>>>> machine. If possible I would like to run the service with a Network
>>>> login if not a local admin would work...
>>> 
>>> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README
>> 
>> I used that and it worked I have installed the service as a network user
>>> logged in as that user and created this crontab file but it doesn't
>> run. The file runs okay from command prompt but not from the crontab file?
>> 
>> 1       *       *       *       *       /time.bash > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> It's not clear if you used `crontab -e` or not?  That command is the way to 
> add entries to your crontab, and if it doesn't run that means either cron is 
> not running (as a service) or there is a problem (probably logged in Windows' 
> event log).
>
>> In my reading I gathered that this was a way to get around intalling a
>> mail client.
>
> Setting up cron to get around installing a mail client?  Are you kidding? 
> mail clients (or servers) have nothing to do with cron; cron uses the server 
> (ssmtp or exim, whatever is symbolically linked to sendmail) to send 
> messages.

This is the windows log?
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot 
be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry 
information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote 
computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this 
description; see Help and Support for details. The following 
information is part of the event: /usr/sbin/cron: PID 5060: (kmarkle) 
MAIL (mailed 46 bytes of output but got status 0x0001
).




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