At 05:25 PM 6/29/2005, you wrote: >Imran Merali wrote: > >> I am trying to get cron to execute a bash script at a certain time, >> but it is not doing so. The script itself works well, but it doesn't >> seem to want to run when i set it up as a cron job. The same thing >> happens when I try to do something simple like output a timestamp to a >> text file each minute. This is a fresh install. Additionally, the line >> in my crontab is identical to that in the crontab on my bsd machine. I >> used cron_diagnose.sh, but it said my install was fine, with the >> exception of a little issue with sendmail, which I tried to correct >> with a symlink to a working mailer. >[snip] > >First look into the Windows Event Viewer + Application, you should find a few >events that have, among other things, the crond output.
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