Re: Anomaly in CRON execution of shell script

2024-12-29 Thread Chris Elvidge via Cygwin
On 29/12/2024 at 00:20, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote: On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:07:10 + Chris Elvidge wrote: I have a directory of files that I need the contained executables run from CRON. (Like run-parts.) I have found that since 25/12/2024, when run from CRON, it doesn't differentiate betw

Re: Anomaly in CRON execution of shell script

2024-12-28 Thread Takashi Yano via Cygwin
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:07:10 + Chris Elvidge wrote: > I have a directory of files that I need the contained executables run > from CRON. (Like run-parts.) > > I have found that since 25/12/2024, when run from CRON, it doesn't > differentiate between executable and non-executable files. I.e.

Anomaly in CRON execution of shell script

2024-12-28 Thread Chris Elvidge via Cygwin
I have a directory of files that I need the contained executables run from CRON. (Like run-parts.) I have found that since 25/12/2024, when run from CRON, it doesn't differentiate between executable and non-executable files. I.e. tries to run the non-executables. It ran correctly on 24/12/2024

Re: Cron execution

2006-05-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Nelson Pereira wrote: Hi all, I edited a users crontab, although I don’t understand why it's not executing... The crontab has an entry to backup every hour, yet the cronjob does not seem to get called. Can someone explain to me what im missing? Here's one thing: > Problem reports: htt

Cron execution

2006-05-14 Thread Nelson Pereira
Hi all, I edited a users crontab, although I don’t understand why it's not executing... The crontab has an entry to backup every hour, yet the cronjob does not seem to get called. Can someone explain to me what im missing? Do I have to call it from the windows scheduler? Running WINXP SP2 With