FW: Re: [UPDATE] cron won't execute tasks

2004-12-17 Thread Sebastian Berger
Hello Robert, I think I have the same problem you had executing crontabs…. (W2k3 server) I was searching the archives and the net for any solution to this. Basically I followed all the threads and tried: 1. Cron under System Account -> Context switch problem 2. Cron under a ‘cron_server’ accoun

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2004-12-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
> - Forwarded message from Reini Urban - > From: Reini Urban > To: cygwin > Subject: Re: cron won't execute tasks > Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:21:17 +0200 > > Dave Korn schrieb: > > You forgot to mention cron-diagnose.sh! I think 1.7 is the most recent.

Re: [UPDATE] cron won't execute tasks

2004-11-04 Thread Robert Pollard
I ran cron_diagnose.sh and fixed the things that it said needed to be fixed. There was a problem with the permissions on /etc/passwd that I couldn't figure out how to resolve. It said the permissions needed have the read bit set. So, I set it and it still didn't work. The pattern it is look

Re: cron won't execute tasks

2004-10-29 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:16 PM 10/29/2004, you wrote: >On Oct 28, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Larry Hall wrote: > >>At 08:22 PM 10/28/2004, you wrote: >>>Hello all, >>> >>>This problem is driving me insane (I don't have far to go ;-). >>> >>>Configuration: >>>Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition, quad processor, 12 GB RAM. Just d

Re: cron won't execute tasks

2004-10-29 Thread Robert Pollard
On Oct 28, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Larry Hall wrote: At 08:22 PM 10/28/2004, you wrote: Hello all, This problem is driving me insane (I don't have far to go ;-). Configuration: Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition, quad processor, 12 GB RAM. Just downloaded Cygwin a few days ago. So, it should be the lates

Re: cron won't execute tasks

2004-10-29 Thread Robert Pollard
On Oct 29, 2004, at 5:27 AM, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 29 October 2004 01:47 On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Robert Pollard wrote: Cron will not execute every minute now. I have a scheduled task that does something like "* * * * * /b

Re: cron won't execute tasks

2004-10-29 Thread Reini Urban
Dave Korn schrieb: You forgot to mention cron-diagnose.sh! I think 1.7 is the most recent. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00207.html Couldn't the cron maintainer add this to the package? -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin

RE: cron won't execute tasks

2004-10-29 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: 29 October 2004 01:47 > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Robert Pollard wrote: > > Cron will not execute every minute now. I have a scheduled > task that does > > something like "* * * * * /bin/echo "Test" >/dev/null

Re: cron won't execute tasks

2004-10-28 Thread Larry Hall
At 08:22 PM 10/28/2004, you wrote: >Hello all, > >This problem is driving me insane (I don't have far to go ;-). > >Configuration: >Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition, quad processor, 12 GB RAM. Just downloaded Cygwin a >few days ago. So, it should be the latest. > >The possible root cause: >BTW, I

Re: cron won't execute tasks

2004-10-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Robert Pollard wrote: > Hello all, > > This problem is driving me insane (I don't have far to go ;-). > [snip] > The problem: > Cron will not execute every minute now. I have a scheduled task that does > something like "* * * * * /bin/echo "Test" >/dev/null 1>/TestAct.log" I

cron won't execute tasks

2004-10-28 Thread Robert Pollard
Hello all, This problem is driving me insane (I don't have far to go ;-). Configuration: Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition, quad processor, 12 GB RAM. Just downloaded Cygwin a few days ago. So, it should be the latest. The possible root cause: BTW, I am trying to run cron as a service. Our IT per