Dear Cygwin community, I'm beating with my self in order to set up a simple cron job in a Cygwin environment (setup.exe version 2.738) under Windows server 2003. At first I encountered some difficulties to start cron service but now it starts correctly and cron logs its run my job.
For information, here what I used to set up cron: net user cron_server --Passwd123_ /add /active:yes /fullname:"Cron Server" /comment:"Cygwin Cron Server" net localgroup Administrators cron_server /add editrights -a SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege -u cron_server editrights -a SeCreateTokenPrivilege -u cron_server editrights -a SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege -u cron_server editrights -a SeServiceLogonRight -u cron_server editrights -a SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight -u cron_server editrights -a SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -u cron_server editrights -a SeDenyRemoteInteractiveLogonRight -u cron_server mkpasswd -l -u cron_server >> /etc/passwd cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -n -d "Cygwin cron" -e "CYGWIN=tty ntsec" -u cron_server -w --Passwd123_ As I said cron starts successfully: $ net start cron The Cygwin cron service is starting. The Cygwin cron service was started successfully. $ ps -aef | grep cron cron_ser 4072 1 ? 17:33:39 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv cron_ser 8860 4072 ? 17:33:39 /usr/sbin/cron I have installed a job under my current user: $ crontab.exe -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.5GOjQflUK7 installed on Wed Oct 26 17:31:36 2011) # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $) * * * * * /bin/date > /tmp/date.log But I never see /tmp/date.log file: $ ls -l /tmp total 0 Here is what I can see in cron events: $cronevents.exe [...] 2011/10/26 17:33:39 [cron_server] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 8860: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0) 2011/10/26 17:33:40 [cron_server] cron: PID 4072: `cron' service started 2011/10/26 17:34:01 [cron_server] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 8440: (XXXXXX) CMD (/bin/date > /tmp/date.log) 2011/10/26 17:35:01 [cron_server] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 3984: (XXXXXX) CMD (/bin/date > /tmp/date.log) 2011/10/26 17:36:01 [cron_server] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 6604: (XXXXXX) CMD (/bin/date > /tmp/date.log) 2011/10/26 17:37:01 [cron_server] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 9464: (XXXXXX) CMD (/bin/date > /tmp/date.log) 2011/10/26 17:38:01 [cron_server] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 9780: (XXXXXX) CMD (/bin/date > /tmp/date.log) 2011/10/26 17:39:01 [cron_server] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 8732: (XXXXXX) CMD (/bin/date > /tmp/date.log) 2011/10/26 17:40:01 [cron_server] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 3464: (XXXXXX) CMD (/bin/date > /tmp/date.log) 2011/10/26 17:41:01 [cron_server] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 3492: (XXXXXX) CMD (/bin/date > /tmp/date.log) 2011/10/26 17:42:01 [cron_server] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 6896: (XXXXXX) CMD (/bin/date > /tmp/date.log) 2011/10/26 17:42:44 [SGCC.smeras] crontab: PID 4440: (XXXXXX) LIST (SGCC.smeras) 2011/10/26 17:43:01 [cron_server] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 4964: (XXXXXX) CMD (/bin/date > /tmp/date.log) 2011/10/26 17:44:01 [cron_server] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 5128: (XXXXXX) CMD (/bin/date > /tmp/date.log) Note: I have replace my username by 'XXXXXX' As you can see cron seems able to run the job but, and I still don't know why, I cannot see /tpm/date.log file. Would you have some suggestions ? I thank you in advance for your help. Regards. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
