* Dave Korn (2004-05-27 11:26 +0100) >> * Robert Pollard (2004-05-26 18:33 +0100) >>> I have a bit of a problem where when we launch cron from >> the command >>> line after a few days it dies in Windows but is still visible in >>> Cygwin. >> >> Beg your pardon? Your sentence doesn't make sense to me. >> >>> Currently, I run a script that launches /usr/sbin/cron. This >>> script only launches cron if it isn't running. >>> >>> Does it have something to do with not launching from an rc file? >> >> Excuse me? rc files are /configuration/ files... > > Have you ever actually *read* one? They're shell scripts.
You mean the runlevel scripts in rc.d? They're neither part of the default Cygwin nor of cron installation so I didn't think of these. /I/ meant "rc files" like bashrc, zshrc, etc. This misunderstanding proves only two things: 1. People who are retentive with facts and descriptions (like RP) provoke misunderstandings inevitably. 2. If RP had even a slight understanding of Cygwin, he would have known that no "runlevel script" is required to start a "Cygwin service/daemon" (because there are no Cygwin services or daemons; just Windows services.) But I'm not even sure that RP read the cron readme so 2. may be pointless. 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/
