On July 14, 2017 9:06:02 AM EDT, cyg Simple <> wrote: >On 7/14/2017 1:27 AM, Gary Johnson wrote: >> On 2017-07-12, Bryan Dunphy wrote: >>> I have a shell script, originally created for Mac OS X. that waits >>> for an external drive to be mounted (by . >> > >In reality the OP script appears to be executed in a crontab system and >executed every X minutes. So a change to the OP question is needed >which is answered at[1]. Let's remember some people have no real clue >as to what question they should ask and we need to interpret what is >being asked into what should have been asked. If interpretation isn't >possible then asking for a use case would be warranted. > >[1] >https://stackoverflow.com/questions/707184/how-do-you-run-a-crontab-in-cygwin-on-windows
cyg Simple, Thanks much for this. It seems the link is misleading, because it says cygrunsrv and cron-config must be used to get Cron to work. I've been frustrated without admin, being unable to use these. It turns out simply adding /usr/sbin/cron to .bashrc will make Cron available. Or, slightly more complicated, to avoid "lock" errors: $HOME/bin/startcron Containing: #!/bin/bash if P=$(pgrep cron) then echo "already running, PID is $P" else echo "not running, starting now" /usr/sbin/cron fi Thanks! -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
