Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...
Kevin Markle
kmarkle@pbs.org
Thu Mar 15 21:43:00 GMT 2007
Pierre A. Humblet pretended :
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Markle"
> To: <cygwin>
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...
>
>
>> 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?
>
> I assume you used cron-config
> Does "ps -a" show cron running, and as the privileged user you created?
> How do you know the file doesn't run?
>
>>
>> 1 * * * * /time.bash > /dev/null 2>&1
>>
>> In my reading I gathered that this was a way to get around intalling a
>> mail client.
>
> It's surely safer to just put
> MAILTO=""
> in your cron file
>
> Pierre
I put the entry in the top of the file but still it doesn't work..
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