r wrote:
I started cron ( with "cron-config" command, ( is it possible
to configure it to start at win boot ? ))
Cron-config did that.
so I did once and from next time it will be started at boot
time ? Because I did not find this information everywhere.
Yes it will start at boot time (if and only if you answered yes when
cron-config asked you "Do you want to install the cron daemon as a
service?"), you can check it in many ways:
- Running: cygrunsrv -Q cron
- Opening My Computer -> Manage -> Services and Applications -> Services
but at 00.27 nothing appened. Did I make something wrong ?
You didn't learn to use cron:
man crontab
less /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-4.1-6.README
I read the documents in /usr/share/doc/cron/, the cron manpages
but they did not specify those informations.
Now I read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-4.1-6.README and crontab
manpage but again they don't specify those informations.
You are right about reading documentation, and maybe I had to
look on the web, but I was told that cygwin apps are not exactly
the same as linux apps. So looking in linux apps docs may be unuseful.
Cron under Cygwin is very close to the one usually distributed with
Linux. I think the man page has all the information you requested, even
some you didn't but should know to avoid mistakes like putting a file
under /var/cron/tabs; the top of the man page tells you that crontab is
the tool you should use, the alternative (inherited from Linux) is to
use /etc/cron.d/ .
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René Berber
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