Re: cron: trying and totally failing to run a simple cron job - fixed (with comments)

2023-05-23 Thread Jonathan Clark via Cygwin
I got this running. In the hope that it may help others, I give some details here. It turned out that I was on the right track - it *was* the space in my Windows username which was making cron complain. The simple addition of a (basically completely fake but plausible) MAILTO line in the

Re: cron: trying and totally failing to run a simple cron job

2023-05-23 Thread Jonathan Clark via Cygwin
Hi Brian: Thank you for your response. On 23/05/2023 17:44, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2023-05-23 13:46, Jonathan Clark via Cygwin wrote: First off, many thanks to everyone who is putting in time and effort in making cygwin as wonderful as it is. I'm trying to get what I think is a simple cron

Re: cron: trying and totally failing to run a simple cron job

2023-05-23 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
On 2023-05-23 13:46, Jonathan Clark via Cygwin wrote: First off, many thanks to everyone who is putting in time and effort in making cygwin as wonderful as it is. I'm trying to get what I think is a simple cron job working. So far all I've gotten is frustrated and confused. I'm sure I'm doing

cron: trying and totally failing to run a simple cron job

2023-05-23 Thread Jonathan Clark via Cygwin
Hi there: First off, many thanks to everyone who is putting in time and effort in making cygwin as wonderful as it is. I'm trying to get what I think is a simple cron job working. So far all I've gotten is frustrated and confused. I'm sure I'm doing something stupid (probably more than one