- Original Message -
From: Ting Zhou
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:20 PM
Right on, Pierre! Thanks a lot for the clue. Finally I figured it out. There
were two problems.
The first problem, yes, I was a bit impatient and should've waited one more
minute. It seems
crontab change
I'd like to report a bug with Vixie cron. I have cygwin installed with cron
option. And I ran cron-config and set up everything. Cron-diagnose script
didn't find any problem. Cron service was also started without problem.
However, cron just wouldn't run the simple command I set up in the
- Original Message -
From: Ting Zhou
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
I'd like to report a bug with Vixie cron. I have cygwin installed with cron
option. And I ran
cron-config and set up everything. Cron-diagnose script didn't find any
problem. Cron service
was also started without problem.
Did you check that your cron job line is formatted correctly? If your
line is literally of the form
/usr/bin/touch /tmp/abcd
then it definitely won't run because it is incorrectly written.
William Sutton
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
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From:
-Original Message-
From: William Sutton [mailto:will...@trilug.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:26 AM
To: Pierre A. Humblet
Cc: Ting Zhou; cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cron does not do anything
Did you check that your cron job line is formatted correctly? If your
line
- Original Message -
From: Ting Zhou
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:33 PM
Thanks for the quick response. The crontab line is literally like:
28 19 * * * /usr/bin/touch /tmp/abcd
Pierre, attached is the fgrep result of all the logs in /var/log. cron.log
was created but is
empty
changed it to /home/tzhou and
viola, the cron is working.
Again, huge thanks for the help.
Ting
-Original Message-
From: Pierre A. Humblet [mailto:pierre.humb...@ieee.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:59 PM
To: Ting Zhou
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cron does not do
Ting Zhou wrote:
The first problem, yes, I was a bit impatient and should've waited one
more minute. It seems crontab change does take more than one minute to be
effective. Once I changed it to * * * * *, I saw an error message in
/var/log/messages saying (CRON) error (can't cd to HOME), which
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