Re: cron does not work: no error message

2008-01-12 Thread Saurabh Tendulkar
Pierre, Thanks for the reply. It seems to be working now, although I didnt do anything. Very strange. The cron.log file is still empty though. cron-config says no problem found. saurabh --- "Pierre A. Humblet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message -

Convert windows shortcuts to cygwin soft links

2008-01-10 Thread Saurabh Tendulkar
I must have done something to my cygwin folder, but all my ln'ed soft links on cygwin have gotten replaced by *.lnk windows files. Is there a utility to convert windows links to cygwin soft links? I dont want to have to go and do everything manually (there's at least a hundred files!). Thank you.

cron does not work: no error message

2008-01-10 Thread Saurabh Tendulkar
Hi, I upgraded my cygwin recently to the latest cron (4.1-6), and it seems to have stopped working. I did a cygrunsrv -E cron when the setup asked me to kill cron, and cygrunsrv -S cron to start it after the upgrade finished. Now the application log shows that /usr/sbin/cron actually runs, but in

Re: Can cron cause computer to wake up from hibernate?

2007-10-02 Thread Saurabh Tendulkar
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:51:19AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Danilo Turina wrote: I then discovered that my network card was configured to wake up the PC when receiving certain kind of packets. Disabling that feature did the job. AFAICT that's not hibernation - that's sleep mode. There's a

Can cron cause computer to wake up from hibernate?

2007-10-01 Thread Saurabh Tendulkar
Hi, I'm trying to troubleshoot why my pc comes out of hibernate. It seems like some of the times this happens correspond to cron jobs. Is it possible that cron could be (one of) the culprit(s) here? If so, is there a way to prevent cron from waking up the computer? Thank you. saurabh ___

1.5.20(0.156/4/2) pipe hangs, dos files

2006-08-01 Thread Saurabh Tendulkar
I guess I must send this again since no one replied the first time. For the sake of argument, there are two "fileformat=dos" files A and B, each having n lines. A has the single character 'a' (other than linebreaks) on each line, B has the single character 'b' on each line. Now for sufficie

NT-5.1 1.5.20(0.156/4/2) pipe hangs, dos files

2006-07-27 Thread Saurabh Tendulkar
Hi, I'm not sure this is the correct place for bug reporting but I couldnt find anything else on the website, so here goes. For the sake of argument, there are two "fileformat=dos" files A and B, each having n lines. A has the single character 'a' (other than linebreaks) on each line, B has the s