RE: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1

2004-02-20 Thread Harig, Mark
> > The only thing I hadn't done before was the mkpasswd -l -d > and mkgroup > -l -d on first run of the original install, so don't know if > that made a > difference, but its working now. It does make a difference, and this problem is detected by the diagnostic script. When the problem is

Re: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1

2004-02-20 Thread Russell Hind
Russell Hind wrote: I have just installed the latest cygwin and set up cron to run using Thanks for your replies. I have it working now by uninstalling cygwin and re-installing it from the web (I had installed it a couple of weeks back and then added cron later). The only thing I hadn't done

RE: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1

2004-02-19 Thread Harig, Mark
Please read the message in the Cygwin mailing list at: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00711.html It will provide you with a script that will attempt to diagnose the problem that you are having with cron. > -Original Message- > From: Russell Hind [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1

2004-02-19 Thread Brian Kelly
more thing to be aware of. Brian Kelly -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thorsten Kampe Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 7:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1 * Russell Hind (2004-02-19 10:55 +0100

Re: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1

2004-02-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Russell Hind (2004-02-19 10:55 +0100) > I have just installed the latest cygwin and set up cron to run using > > cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D > cygrunsrv -S cron > > It is running as a service (both in XP task manager and in ps -ef) > > But I can't get it to execute commands. I h