*Please do NOT send private email* * Michael Chen (2004-03-02 20:12 +0100) > I read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README
I doubt that. > and see that cron in cygwin is actually a windows 2000 service, > surprising! It is not by itself. You have to install it as described in the readme. > But does it mean I shoud see cron in the NT Task Manager once > windows 2000 starts? If you set the start type of the service to "automatically", yes. Otherwise no. > I checked carefully, and it is not there. Either you didn't install it as a services or it isn't run automatically: read /var/cron/log, the system and application entries in the eventviewer. > Without calling it from termail, cron won't do anything on my > machine. As you stated it DOESN'T DO ANYTHING EVEN WHEN CALLING IT FROM A SHELL. What do yo type? - "net start cron"? > I editted my crontab file /var/cron/tabs/Administrator to let it > write date to a log file every minute and nothing happens! I and others already told you that your command line is totally wrong. You didn't even bother to test it in a shell. Do you expect cron to compensate for your inability in testing?! > By the way, cron man page says that it send output to user. But I > didn't see 'mail' or 'sendmail' package in Cygwin. Why? Because you didn't read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README. There it says that "Mail is send using /usr/sbin/ssmtp instead of using sendmail". It does it even if there is no ssmtp by redirecting output and error messages to "~/dead.letter". Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
