Andrew King wrote: > Before I get started, please note that I'm a complete Cygwin newbie, so > try to bear with me. > > We had Cron running on a system to check the integrity of our backups, > but the drive went out. We had a backup of the drive before it went > out. My boss now wants me to make the Cron run again from the backup of > the Cygwin directory, and I've never worked with Cygwin in my life. So > I really don't know what I'm doing. I tried running "cygrunsrv -I Cron > -p /bin/crontab.exe" to install the service. The service installs, but [snip]
Wrong, the service is not installed that way. Read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README first, then uninstall the mess you did with "cygrunsrv -R Cron" before you install it again. Second, you should really learn about how to use cron. The documentation of the installed cron can be seen with "man cron", "man crontab", "man 5 crontab". Any documentation from the Web could also be useful. -- René Berber -- 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/
