Reid Thompson wrote: > 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
cron hourly 00 * * * * /path/to/executable >/path/to/logfile will run at the top of each hour 30 * * * * /path/to/executable >/path/to/logfile will run at the bottom of each hour etc... 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/
