----- Original Message ----- From: "Ting Zhou" <> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:33 PM
Thanks for the quick response. The crontab line is literally like: 28 19 * * * /usr/bin/touch /tmp/abcd Pierre, attached is the fgrep result of all the logs in /var/log. "cron.log" was created but is empty all along. Let me know if I can supply further diagnostic information. ****************** Right, cron does nothing. But ... The job is supposed to run at 19:28 every day You started cron at 19:26:30, it's not clear if the crontab existed then. You edited the crontab at 19:27:19 When 19:28 came, cron reloaded the crontab but did not run anything. I don't know if it's by design or not, you are playing it close. Have you tried using * * * * * in the crontab while you are debugging this? Also try running a command like "env" that produces an output. It should appear in ~/cron.log or in /tmp/cronXXXX if there is a problem. Finally your group is mkgroup-l-d. This suggests that /etc/group may not be up to date. Pierre -- 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/
