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RE: Cron is running but jobs are not being executed


Wow! thanks for the quick response....but....no luck yet

Here is my latest crontab file: 

[mark/tmp]:>crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/mruzomberka installed on Fri Jul 22 12:38:18 2005)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41 corinna Exp $)
0 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 >/dev/console
10 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 >/dev/console
20 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 >/dev/console
30 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 >/dev/console
35 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 >/dev/console
40 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 >/dev/console
50 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 >/dev/console
*  * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/date.txt

I made the 3 changes suggested: 
1. Added the > in front of /dev/console
2. Added a new line at the end of the file
3. Added explict path to date

However, no luck yet on cron executing any of these jobs. 

Here is the output of my cron.log file as requested: 

[mark/tmp]:>less /var/log/cron.log
[mark/tmp]:>ps -a
      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
     1592       1    1592       1592    ?   18 09:38:36 /bin/cygrunsrv
     1708    1592    1708       1780    ?   18 09:38:36 /usr/sbin/cron
     2668       1    2668       2668  con 17205 09:50:22 /bin/bash
     2432    2668    2432       3260  con 17205 12:40:10 /bin/ps
[mark/tmp]:>less /var/log/cron.log
[2244] cron started
[2544] cron started
[1708] cron started

I can see that process 1708 is started, and no errors are reported in the log? 

Do I need to have the file date.txt already created? or will cron create the file for me? 

Thanks Again, 

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu]
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 11:12 AM
To: Ruzomberka, Mark
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cron is running but jobs are not being executed


On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Ruzomberka, Mark wrote:

> [snip]
> I have checked my crontab file:
>
> [mark/tmp]:>crontab -l
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/mruzomberka installed on Thu Jul 21 17:16:16 2005)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41 corinna Exp $)
> 0 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 /dev/console
> 10 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 /dev/console
> 20 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 /dev/console
> 30 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 /dev/console
> 35 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 /dev/console
> 40 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 /dev/console
> 50 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 /dev/console
                                ^^
Someone else already noticed this, so I won't comment.

> *  * * * * date >> /tmp/date.txt[mark/tmp]:>
             ^^^^
It's also a good idea to use full paths to utilities, as /bin (/usr/bin)
may not be in the PATH.  Try changing this to /usr/bin/date.
HTH,
	Igor
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