Totte Karlsson wrote: > Hi, > I have started cron as a service under Windows 2000. I > 'naively' created a directory, /etc/cron.hourly and put a > script in there. I had hoped that cron would execute the > script once every hour but it does not work. > > How do I get the folders /etc/cron.hourly, etc/cron.daily > etc/cron.weekly correctly working in cygwin? regards -totte
$ cat exampleCronFile #* * * * * command to be executed #- - - - - #| | | | | #| | | | +----- day of week (1 - 7) (monday = 1) #| | | +------- month (1 - 12) #| | +--------- day of month (1 - 31) #| +----------- hour (0 - 23) #+------------- min (0 - 59) 05 15 5 2 * /path/to/executable >/path/to/logfile will execute the executable at 3:15 PM on the 5th of the second month and it doesn't care which day of the week that is. reid -- 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/
