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Re: cron and hibernate
- From: "Paul Y. Peng" <ypeng at math dot mun dot ca>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:48:13 -0230
- Subject: Re: cron and hibernate
Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com> wrote:
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:03:56PM -0230, Paul Y. Peng wrote:
I have two problems with cron:
1. Where can I get cron.README? I found several places where this file is
referred to. But I can't find it in my installation of cygwin. Running
setup.exe shows that I have all files in Admin and Doc installed on my
PC. I thought this file may be important for me to use cron properly.
/usr/share/doc/cron.README
Interesting. In my cygwin installation, I don't have cron.README in
/usr/share/doc/. But I have a directory cron and a file README in cron.
Is this the file cron.README?
2. Currently I just go to /usr/sbin/ and run cron directly. It works until
after the PC is restored from the hibernate state. Both Windows task
manager and bash+ps show that cron is a running process. But it just
does not respond to the job in crontab. Does anybody have experience of
this problem to share?
Yes, this is an internal problem of Vixie cron, not related to Cygwin.
AFAIK. The same can happen on any system when e. g. the system clock is
too fast and it doesn't get corrected for a while. If you then correct
the setting, cron might suddenly refuse to start any process. Restarting
cron is the only option I know of. I heard also about the same problem
when hibernating a laptop under Linux.
Thank you for this definitive but negative answer. It saves me time to try
in vain. Are there any alternative ways to do the same thing as cron? I
only heard about WinCron. Thanks.
Paul.
Corinna
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