Cron doesn't work after 1.7 upgrade

2011-12-15 Thread Mike Brown
The crontab entry that I had should have fired, but it didn't. At 20:58 on day 4 (Thu), the entry should have fired. Doing a ps -eaf shows that the UID of cron is 0, not SYSTEM. Is that an issue with 1.7? If so, how do I fix it? If not, what can I do to find out why cron failed to run my cront

Re: Cron doesn't work

2004-10-13 Thread Brian Dessent
Marcos Rebelo wrote: > $ cygrunsrv --start cron > cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error > 1062: > The service has not been started. > > Just the last one seems to be incorrect This is your problem. However, that is not the actual error. It's just telling you th

RE: Cron doesn't work

2004-10-13 Thread Marcos Rebelo
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RE: Cron doesn't work

2004-10-12 Thread Larry Hall
lf >Of Larry Hall >Sent: segunda-feira, 11 de Outubro de 2004 17:27 >To: Marcos Rebelo; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Cron doesn't work > >At 08:25 AM 10/11/2004, you wrote: >>I have the cron installed, my crontab is: >>*/2 * * * * perl -e 'open(FILE, &

RE: Cron doesn't work

2004-10-12 Thread Marcos Rebelo
; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cron doesn't work At 08:25 AM 10/11/2004, you wrote: >I have the cron installed, my crontab is: >*/2 * * * * perl -e 'open(FILE, >">/cygdrive/c/deleteMe.txt") or die $!; print FILE (time."\n"); >close(FILE)' >

Re: Cron doesn't work

2004-10-11 Thread Larry Hall
At 08:25 AM 10/11/2004, you wrote: >I have the cron installed, my crontab is: >*/2 * * * * perl -e 'open(FILE, >">/cygdrive/c/deleteMe.txt") or die $!; print FILE (time."\n"); >close(FILE)' > >but nothing is going on. I suggest you start with something easier (like '/bin/echo "hello"'),

Cron doesn't work

2004-10-11 Thread Marcos Rebelo
I have the cron installed, my crontab is: */2 * * * * perl -e 'open(FILE, ">/cygdrive/c/deleteMe.txt") or die $!; print FILE (time."\n"); close(FILE)' but nothing is going on. Marcos -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: