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Re: Cron is running but jobs are not being executed
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:55:29 -0400
- Subject: Re: Cron is running but jobs are not being executed
- Reply-to: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
Ruzomberka, Mark wrote
> 50 * * * * echo "WAKE UP" 2>&1 /dev/console
> * * * * * date >> /tmp/date.txt[mark/tmp]:>
>
> It is my understanding of the crontab file that I should be getting "WAKE UP" statements printed to my screen every
ten minutes.
The messages will be written to the console of the cron process.
Because it is started as a service, I am not sure there is one,
or what it would be.
Did you check the Windows event log?
Pierre
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