Re: crontab: no changes made to crontab

Greetings, Brian Inglis via Cygwin! > On 2024-07-06 04:50, Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote: >> I'm trying to install a new cron job, and the thing fails claiming that it >> didn't see the edits I made to the file. # echo "USER=$USER" | crontab - # crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS F

Re: crontab: no changes made to crontab

On 2024-07-06 04:50, Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote: I'm trying to install a new cron job, and the thing fails claiming that it didn't see the edits I made to the file. # echo "USER=$USER" | crontab - # crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (- installed on Sat J

Re: crontab: no changes made to crontab

On Sat, 6 Jul 2024 at 12:06, Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote: > I'm trying to install a new cron job, and the thing fails claiming that it > didn't see the edits I made to the file. > > > > Is there a way around it that does not involve replacing crontab tool with my > own script that has no such i

Re: crontab message "must be privileged to use -u"

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:54:51PM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, All! > > I'm trying to use Cygwin's cron, but have a small issue: > > # crontab -u 18 -l > must be privileged to use -u > > Is there a way around the problem? > I'm in an elevated shell, but it seems crontab is doing a du

Re: crontab message "must be privileged to use -u"

Brian Inglis writes: > Installed libfakesu - fakesu just scans source for functions it can fake - it > is > undocumented and not obvious how you are meant to run it. > One library function can implement suid/sgid exe permission bits. Sorry, then I misremembered what it was for back from the discu

Re: crontab message "must be privileged to use -u"

On 2020-03-18 15:39, Achim Gratz wrote: > Andrey Repin writes: I'm in an elevated shell, but it seems crontab is doing a dumb POSIX check for EUID=0. >> >>> Then wrapping it with fakesu should work (no I have not tried that). >> >> Cool idea, but I'm not up for recompiling crontab >

Re: crontab message "must be privileged to use -u"

Andrey Repin writes: >>> I'm in an elevated shell, but it seems crontab is doing a dumb POSIX check >>> for >>> EUID=0. > >> Then wrapping it with fakesu should work (no I have not tried that). > > Cool idea, but I'm not up for recompiling crontab >.> > Still, thanks for the reply. If you care to

Re: crontab message "must be privileged to use -u"

Greetings, Achim Gratz! > Andrey Repin writes: >> I'm trying to use Cygwin's cron, but have a small issue: >> >> # crontab -u 18 -l >> must be privileged to use -u >> >> Is there a way around the problem? >> I'm in an elevated shell, but it seems crontab is doing a dumb POSIX check >> for >> EUID

Re: crontab message "must be privileged to use -u"

Andrey Repin writes: > I'm trying to use Cygwin's cron, but have a small issue: > > # crontab -u 18 -l > must be privileged to use -u > > Is there a way around the problem? > I'm in an elevated shell, but it seems crontab is doing a dumb POSIX check for > EUID=0. Then wrapping it with fakesu shoul

Re: crontab not working-need some advice

On 6/9/2010 1:59 PM, curiousgeorge wrote: Hi, I installed cygwin on windows server 2003 and am trying to learn about cron. I created a simple script as follows: #!/usr/bin/bash #move the file every 1 min echo 'date'>> datelog.txt mv datelog.txt outbound I then created a crontab using the comma

Re: crontab problem

At 02:49 PM 5/30/2010, System wrote: Hi. I`m using CYGWIN Posix environment under windows xp sp2 (ru) But i have problem with crontab. It didnt start as service anyway. If anythink is unclear let me know. See the attach file. Thanks in advance. Hi, PATH is unusual: C:\cygwin\step\bin The cy

Re: crontab 1.12 issuing error about

- Original Message - From: "Larry W. Virden To: Cygwin | | --- On Mon, 10/26/09, Pierre A. Humblet writes: | > Up to now you have only described Windows problems: | > CAS\Olentangy probably cannot login as a service or has the | > wrong password | > and there is some permission issue u

Re: crontab 1.12 issuing error about

- Original Message - From: "Larry W. Virden" To: "Cygwin" Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 8:56 | My administrator has been trying to get the cron service to run on our cygwin 1.7 environments. After installing the various packages, he performed the permission changes on my machine on

Re: Crontab runs fine in cmd line not via CRON for expect scripts

John-Mc wrote: Hi All, I'm new here so please bear with me. I have a server running Windows Server 2003 Std Edition w/ SP2 and for whatever reason I cannot get CRON to execute my expect scripts. If I run them manually they run just fine. Another co-worker has some perl scripts that kick off with

Re: crontab not sending output to me?

- Original Message - From: "Kevin Markle" <> To: Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 4:02 PM Subject: Re: crontab not sending output to me? | Pierre A. Humblet wrote on 4/13/2007 : | > - Original Message - | > From: "Kevin Markle" <> | > To:

Re: crontab not sending output to me?

Pierre A. Humblet wrote on 4/13/2007 : - Original Message - From: "Kevin Markle" <> To: <> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 3:55 PM Subject: crontab not sending output to me? Hello, I'm running this crontab. When I run /cygdrive/e/wsus/run_all_groups.sh from a command line it works but w

Re: crontab not sending output to me?

- Original Message - From: "Kevin Markle" <> To: <> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 3:55 PM Subject: crontab not sending output to me? | Hello, | | I'm running this crontab. When I run /cygdrive/e/wsus/run_all_groups.sh | from a command line it works but when I run it from cron I get no

Re: crontab and windows 2003

Kevin Markle wrote: Hello, I'm attempting to setup crontab on a windows 2003 box and am having problems getting the jobs to run. I have tried running the service as a local administrater and domain admin and the service starts and stops and then tells me that "some services will only start whe

Re: crontab (Attn: FAQ maintainer)

On 8/26/05, Brian Dessent wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > All done: > > > > > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.shares > > > > Looks good. I also noticed that you got rid of numeric anchors, which > > fixed the FAQ browsing in Netscape for me. Thanks! > > Could you perh

Re: crontab (Attn: FAQ maintainer)

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > All done: > > > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.shares > > Looks good. I also noticed that you got rid of numeric anchors, which > fixed the FAQ browsing in Netscape for me. Thanks! Could you perhaps add to the list of workarounds calling 'net use'

Re: crontab (Attn: FAQ maintainer)

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 8/26/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > > > On 8/26/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > > > > > > > The answer is in the link that Igor ga

Re: crontab (Attn: FAQ maintainer)

On 8/26/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > On 8/26/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > > > > > The answer is in the link that Igor gave you. This FAQ perhaps should > > > > be split up into two que

Re: crontab (Attn: FAQ maintainer)

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 8/26/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > > > The answer is in the link that Igor gave you. This FAQ perhaps should > > > be split up into two questions, or at least be made more clear that > > > t

Re: crontab (Attn: FAQ maintainer)

On 8/26/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > The answer is in the link that Igor gave you. This FAQ perhaps should > > be split up into two questions, or at least be made more clear that > > there are two problems being addressed in the answer. > > FWIW,

Re: crontab (Attn: FAQ maintainer)

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > Jean-Michel Douchain wrote: > > > > "Ah, that may explain it. Is G: a network drive?" > > > > That's right. It's a Dos network drive, and in fact, the response of > > "ls" is very long. I installed cygwin for all users. So I don't know > > how to manage

Re: crontab

Jean-Michel Douchain wrote: > > "Ah, that may explain it. Is G: a network drive?" > > That's right. It's a Dos network drive, and in fact, the response of "ls" is > very long. > I installed cygwin for all users. > So I don't know how to manage because my script works > by hand!! What are the dif

Re: crontab

"Ah, that may explain it. Is G: a network drive?" That's right. It's a Dos network drive, and in fact, the response of "ls" is very long. I installed cygwin for all users. So I don't know how to manage because my script works by hand!! What are the differents between the cron and the handy execu

Re: crontab

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Ah, that may explain it. Is G: a network drive? If so, see > > . > > Yep, that would be the problem. From his cygcheck: > > a: fd N/AN/A > c: hd

Re: crontab

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Ah, that may explain it. Is G: a network drive? If so, see > . Yep, that would be the problem. From his cygcheck: a: fd N/AN/A c: hd FAT 2047Mb 70% CPUN

Re: crontab

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Jean-Michel Douchain wrote: > my script es.csh: > #!/bin/csh -f > cd /cygdrive/c/sismalp/acqdata/DATA > set acq = /cygdrive/g ^^^ > set list = `/bin/ls $acq` > echo $list >> toto > exit > > my file toto increase of one empty line at each execution, instead

Re: crontab

> > > > > > > Since you didn't redirect the output of either of the above commands, > > > cron will probably try (and fail) to find a working smtp service on > > > your machine to mail you the output. my crontab: 26 * * * * /bin/csh -xv /cygdrive/c/sismalp/acqdata/es.csh >> /tmp/crontst2 2>&1 t

Re: crontab

Ugh, top-posting. Reformatted... On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Jean-Michel Douchain wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski a écrit : > > > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Jean-Michel Douchain wrote: > > > > > I can't run automatically any program with cron?? > > > Can you help me?? > > > > > > -- crontab -- > > > # DO

Re: crontab

Hello, thanks for your response. I've tried your command line but with no success. When i simply do this: * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/crontst the file crontst is created and i see each time the prog was executed in different line. But it's the only thing i can do!! When i run another simple p

Re: crontab

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Jean-Michel Douchain wrote: > I can't run automatically any program with cron?? > Can you help me?? > > -- crontab -- > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/tmp/crontab.2272 installed on Tue Aug 23 17:00:18 2005) > # (Cron version -- $Id: cron

Re: crontab

Jean-Michel Douchain wrote: > I can't run automatically any program with cron?? > Can you help me?? [snip] What does /var/log/cron.log show? What cron events show in Windows Event Viewer (Application)? -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem r

Re: Crontab issue

At 12:53 AM 9/30/2004, you wrote: >On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:29:16 -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > >> Access to network shares seems to come up allot in the context of Cygwin >> services. Maybe it would be good to add something to the FAQ on this. >> What do you think Joshua? > >See how this does: > > S

Re: Crontab issue

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:29:16 -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > Access to network shares seems to come up allot in the context of Cygwin > services. Maybe it would be good to add something to the FAQ on this. > What do you think Joshua? See how this does: Some Cygwin services normally run as the SYS

Re: crontab/mount problem

At 06:44 PM 9/28/2004, you wrote: >> >> >Here's the exact problem >> >$ crontab -l (my crontab) >> ># DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and >> >reinstall. >> ># (/tmp/crontab.1572 installed on Mon Sep 27 >> 17:10:53 >> >2004) >> ># (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 >> >15:13:4

Re: crontab/mount problem

> > >Here's the exact problem > >$ crontab -l (my crontab) > ># DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and > >reinstall. > ># (/tmp/crontab.1572 installed on Mon Sep 27 > 17:10:53 > >2004) > ># (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 > >15:13:41 corinna Exp $) > >HOME = "/cygdrive/c/Prog

Re: crontab/mount problem

At 05:29 AM 9/28/2004, you wrote: >Larry Hall wrote: >>Read this: >> >>If you've installed cron as directed, you won't have access to non-publicly >>accessible shares. Your options are to make the shares accessible to all >>without authentic

Re: crontab/mount problem

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Robert Schmidt wrote: > Larry Hall wrote: > > Read this: > > > > > > > > If you've installed cron as directed, you won't have access to non-publicly > > accessible shares. Your options are to make the shares accessible

Re: crontab/mount problem

Larry Hall wrote: Read this: If you've installed cron as directed, you won't have access to non-publicly accessible shares. Your options are to make the shares accessible to all without authentication or run 'cron' as a service under the sa

Re: crontab/mount problem

At 08:45 PM 9/27/2004, you wrote: >I have installed the cron. It works fine for all cases >except while trying to do anything across the mounted >filesystem. I realize it might be some permission >problem, not sure what it is. Is the problem because >the "k" drive is mounted type "user". How can I

Re: Crontab issue

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Mogyorósi István wrote: Hello, I spent quite a lot of time reading the subject and I still dont have clear sight on the problem. It is probably a permission/access sync issue between Cygwin and NT. But my case is NOT a network drive. Case 1, crontab -e

Re: Crontab issue

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Mogyorósi István wrote: Hello, I spent quite a lot of time reading the subject and I still dont have clear sight on the problem. It is probably a permission/access sync issue between Cygwin and NT. But my case is NOT a network drive. Case 1, crontab -e [ logged in as Administra

RE: Crontab issue

> -Original Message- > From: Larry Hall > Sent: 09 September 2004 19:29 > One can alternatively open up the access of the share to > "Everyone". This > may be preferable if cron is being run for more than one user. [Answers phone, cradles receiver under one ear...] What? Sorry,

RE: Crontab issue

At 02:21 PM 9/9/2004, you wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Simon.Basyuk >> Sent: 09 September 2004 19:07 > >> 1. I have no problem with Crontab running cp from local to local; >> >> 2. I have no problem with running cp from other server to local, from >> comm

RE: Crontab issue

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Simon.Basyuk > Sent: 09 September 2004 19:07 > 1. I have no problem with Crontab running cp from local to local; > > 2. I have no problem with running cp from other server to local, from > command line: > $ cp -p "/cygdrive/j/Move To

Re: crontab: no changes made to crontab

> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> * Michael Chen (2004-03-02 06:57 +0100) >> > Dear all, since the first time using "crontab -", I can never change the >> > crontab file anymore. "crontab -e" calls emacs, but cron just discarded any >> > new modifications. The emacs saved the "crontab

Re: crontab: no changes made to crontab

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Michael Chen (2004-03-02 06:57 +0100) > > Dear all, since the first time using "crontab -", I can never change the > > crontab file anymore. "crontab -e" calls emacs, but cron just discarded any > > new modifications. The emacs saved the "crontab.*

Re: crontab: no changes made to crontab

* Michael Chen (2004-03-02 06:57 +0100) > Dear all, since the first time using "crontab -", I can never change the > crontab file anymore. "crontab -e" calls emacs, but cron just discarded any > new modifications. The emacs saved the "crontab.*" into /tmp. What's > wrong? Thanks. Try using ano

Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000

it > common and what should I do about it? > Thanks. > Original Message Follows > From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Tim Ashman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Crontab does not work,

Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000

ginal Message Follows From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tim Ashman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:59:54 -0500 (EST) On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote:

Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000

may have user mounts that shadow the system ones. Try getting a SYSTEM-owned shell and running "mount -m" from there. If you see any user mounts, "umount -u" them. Igor > Hopefully we get this sorted out after this posting! :) Thanks > > Original Message

Re: Crontab does not run

I definitely installed Cygwin on my Windows 2k machine as "All Users". The crontab I am creating is under my individual user name. When I remove my crontab file and type the command "./crontab -l" it lists my username in the "no cronfile" response, which by the way is on the network domain, not

Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000

we get this sorted out after this posting! :) Thanks Original Message Follows From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tim Ashman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:5

Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000

"Hello, world!" of all > crontabs, i.e. > > 33 12 * * * /bin/date >> /tmp/date.out > > ? HTH, > Igor > > > Original Message Follows > > From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000

r > Original Message Follows > From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Tim Ashman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000 > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:00:32 -0500 (ES

Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000

rld!" of all crontabs, i.e. 33 12 * * * /bin/date >> /tmp/date.out ? HTH, Igor > Original Message Follows > From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Tim Ashman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000

Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tim Ashman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:00:32 -0500 (EST) On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote: Crontab will not run on my Cygwin pla

Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote: Crontab will not run on my Cygwin platform. I am using Cygwin 1.5.5 under Windows 2000 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4. I want to schedule some bash scripts using crontab. Each script runs perfectly fine on its own. I created the following crontab from the bash sh

Re: Crontab does not run

At 05:19 PM 11/19/2003, Tim Ashman you wrote: >I definitely installed Cygwin on my Windows 2k machine as "All Users". The crontab I >am creating is under my individual user name. When I remove my crontab file and type >the command "./crontab -l" it lists my username in the "no cronfile" response

Re: Crontab does not run

I definitely installed Cygwin on my Windows 2k machine as "All Users". The crontab I am creating is under my individual user name. When I remove my crontab file and type the command "./crontab -l" it lists my username in the "no cronfile" response, which by the way is on the network domain, not

Re: Crontab does not run

At 01:47 PM 11/19/2003, Tim Ashman you wrote: >I am having trouble with the Cron utility. I have written a fairly simple bash script >that runs successfully on its own but does not work with crontab. I am working on a >Windows 2K machine. I tried running a simlilar crontab on a linux machine and

RE: crontab error

I have added code to the cron_diagnose.sh script to help detect this problem in the future. > -Original Message- > From: Chuck Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 2:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: crontab error > > > Tha

Re: crontab error

That was it. Thanks for all your help. - Original Message - From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chuck Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:28 PM Subject: Re: crontab error > Ah, interesting.

Re: crontab error

ll prompt but won't start as a service. - Original Message - From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chuck Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:38 PM Subject: Re: crontab error > OK, I'l

Re: crontab error

riginal Message - From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chuck Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:48 PM Subject: Re: crontab error > For group, try 'Users' or 'Domain Users', whi

Re: crontab error

ot;Chuck Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:08 AM Subject: Re: crontab error > Chuck Hamilton wrote: > > It already the permissions set to 777. > > > > -rwxrwxrwx1 Administ mkgroup_32256 Apr 15 11:16 cron* &g

Re: crontab error

Chuck Hamilton wrote: It already the permissions set to 777. -rwxrwxrwx1 Administ mkgroup_32256 Apr 15 11:16 cron* Ahem. Here's the problem. Your /etc/group file is not current. Rerun mkgroup with the appropriate flags. You may want to do this for /et

Re: crontab error

age - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chuck Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 1:26 PM Subject: Re: crontab error > Chuck, > > Cygwin services usually run as LocalSystem. Did you

Re: crontab error

Chuck Hamilton wrote: I'm finding if I run the cron command manually from a shell window, it works. If I try to start it as a service, it fails to start. Below is what I found in the win2k application log. Does it help? "The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( cron ) cannot be found. The lo

Re: crontab error

permissions problem? Do I need to start the cron > service as a specific user? > > - Original Message - > From: "Harig, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Chuck Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 1:

Re: crontab error

roblem? Do I need to start the cron service as a specific user? - Original Message - From: "Harig, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chuck Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 1:03 PM Subject: RE: crontab error

Re: crontab error

Still no go. Attached is the output and my attempt to recreate the service. - Original Message - From: "Harig, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chuck Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 1:03 PM Subject:

RE: crontab error

Please re-run the cron_diagnose.sh script to see if it can find any problems. > -Original Message- > From: Chuck Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 8:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: crontab error > > > I do have the uti

Re: crontab -u

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:14:14PM -0500, House, Mark wrote: > When I use cygwin I am automatically logged in as Administrator in = > bash. At the command line I have used "crontab start_extract" to set = > the crontab file and I have used "crontab stop_extract" to set the = > crontab file. I con

Re: crontab fails to change crontab file: "no changes made to crontab"

> Steve, > > Before you do anything as drastic as a reinstall, check the inode of the > temp file before and after editing. Even though you're using vim, it can > be configured to make backups, and I don't know if the in-place write is > enabled when backup is. If the inode does change, look int

Re: crontab fails to change crontab file: "no changes made to crontab"

crontab is still unable to edit the file it creates with > the first crontab -e. I even tried adding group write permission to > /var/cron/tabs/sholden, but that did no good either. I'm thinking > "reinstall" here ... > > puzzled-ly y'rs - steve > > > >

Re: crontab fails to change crontab file: "no changes made to crontab"

y'rs - steve > -Original Message- > From: Steve Holden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 2:48 PM > To: Harig, Mark A.; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: crontab fails to change crontab file: "no changes made to > crontab" &g

Re: crontab fails to change crontab file: no changes made to crontab

gt;; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 3:16 PM Subject: Re: crontab fails to change crontab file: no changes made to crontab This isn't the same problem as reported and "resolved" a few days ago where the editor in question is emacs,

Re: crontab fails to change crontab file: "no changes made to crontab"

Steve, Which editor are you using? If you are using emacs, check that it overwrites the file in-place (I know vi does). God help you if you're using Notepad. ;-) This problem has come up quite a few times in the recent past, as searching the archives for 'crontab' would have shown you. For exa

Re: crontab fails to change crontab file: no changes made to crontab

This isn't the same problem as reported and "resolved" a few days ago where the editor in question is emacs, is it? Larry Original Message: - From: Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:48:02 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subje

RE: crontab fails to change crontab file: "no changes made to crontab"

Is this assumption correct? > -Original Message- > From: Steve Holden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 2:48 PM > To: Harig, Mark A.; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: crontab fails to change crontab file: "no changes made to > crontab" &g

Re: crontab fails to change crontab file: "no changes made to crontab"

"Harig, Mark A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somehow, the cron.sh script did not get run during your installation. > Here is what it does: > > #!/bin/sh > > set -x > > if [ ! -d /var/cron ] > then > mkdir -p /var/cron > fi > chmod 1777 /var/cron > > if [ ! -d /var/cron/tabs ] > then > mkdir

RE: crontab fails to change crontab file: "no changes made to crontab"

Somehow, the cron.sh script did not get run during your installation. Here is what it does: #!/bin/sh set -x if [ ! -d /var/cron ] then mkdir -p /var/cron fi chmod 1777 /var/cron if [ ! -d /var/cron/tabs ] then mkdir /var/cron/tabs fi chmod 1777 /var/cron/tabs > -Original Message---

Re: crontab: no changes made

Uwe Mayer wrote: > Hi, > > When I start "crontab -e" it won't run, because I haven't vi > installed. I remembered reading something about an EDITOR or VISIBLE > environment variable, though I couldn't find it any more. Thus I set > > export EDITOR=emacs > > Then crontabs starts up emacs, editin

RE: crontab: no changes made

Also, be careful not to change the ownership of the file /var/cron/tab/. SYSTEM needs to be the group owner, otherwise the cron daemon will not accept it. > -Original Message- > From: Uwe Mayer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 8:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: crontab: no changes made

I am guessing that you are running Windows NT. This problem appears on Windows NT, but not on Windows 2000. It has been a problem for a long time (over a year?). I don't know what the solution to the problem is, but a quick way to get around it is to edit your /var/cron/tabs/ file directly. >

Re: crontab: no changes made

On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Uwe Mayer wrote: > Hi, > > When I start "crontab -e" it won't run, because I haven't vi > installed. I remembered reading something about an EDITOR or VISIBLE > environment variable, though I couldn't find it any more. Thus I set The correct name for the variable is VISUAL, a

Re: Crontab -e strange reaction

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:50:50PM +0100, Gerrit Cap wrote: > I don't get any errors when editing the file, and when crontab -e is > running I do see a temporary file in /tmp which is according to the status > line of vi the file being edited. I don't have that problem. You should debug that.

Re: Crontab -e strange reaction

I don't get any errors when editing the file, and when crontab -e is running I do see a temporary file in /tmp which is according to the status line of vi the file being edited. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.

Re: Crontab -e strange reaction

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:09:29AM +0100, Gerrit Cap wrote: > Hello, > > Running the current latest version of cygwin (and cron) on NT 4.0 SP6. When > I edit a crontab file using the crontab -e command, only the first editing > session is handled and I get a response : new crontab installed (or