On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Lst Recv wrote: > > > I'm having trouble using cron on cygwin. > > > > I just installed cron using setup.exe. It didn't create any rc.d files, > > so I started it manually by typing cron at the prompt. (I'm a member of > > group 0). Although the cron process is running, it doesn't seem to be > > running my cron job. > > Since you're on WinXP, you have two options: run cron from the command > line, or run it as a service. To install it as a service, please run the > cron-config script.
Forgot to mention that if you run cron from the command line, you'll only be able to execute the crontabs of the user that runs cron. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/