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Cron malfunction after date change
- From: Jacek Trzmiel <sc0rp at hot dot pl>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:37:12 +0100
- Subject: Cron malfunction after date change
cygwin1.dll 1.5.11-1, win2ksp4+patches
Steps to reproduce:
1. Start cron:
cygrunsrv --stop cron
cygrunsrv --remove cron
cygrunsrv --install cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -i
cygrunsrv --start cron
2. Add task to cron to start at specified time (about 3 minutes from
now) every day. I.e. something like this:
34 15 * * * /some/app
3. Change date to previous day.
4. Wait over a minute.
5. Change date to current day.
6. Wait till time set in step 2.
BUG: Added task doesn't get executed.
EXPECTED: Task started at correct time.
I've also seen something like this:
- I've added task to execute 22:30 every day.
- About 15:00 changed date to previous day, and few minutes later to
current day.
- Task has not been started at 22:30.
- Task has been stated some time after 15:00 next day.
-- Jacek.
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