Re: Cygwin Cron problem

[shash <shashikiran dot v at gmail dot com>]

Thanks Pierre, I have mailed to cygwin.


Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "shash" <shashikiran.v>
> To: <cygwin>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 5:39 AM
> Subject: Cygwin Cron problem
> 
> 
> | 
> | Hi,
> | 
> | Before I start, I would like to inform that, I went through all FAQs and
> | other threads before posting here.
> | I came across this thread where I faced the similar error, but couldn't
> get
> | what they did to resolve it.
> | 
> |
> http://www.nabble.com/1.5.21-1%3AWindows-2003-Server---Cygwin-Cron-tf2425192.html#a6972241
> | 
> | I 'm trying to schedule a shell script on cygwin using cron. No matter
> what
> | I do I don't seem to get the cron job executing my bash script.
> | 
> | My script is temp.sh
> | 
> | echo `date` > /home/test/temp.log
> | 
> | crontab -e is having the following details
> | 
> | * * * * * sh /home/test/temp.sh > /home/test/temp.sh.err 2>&1
> | 
> | I did use the paths in the script itself and I also used the windows
> path
> | where the cygwin installed(/cygdrive/d/cygwin/).
> | 
> | I also tried using the following by editing the crontab:
> | 
> | * * * * * date > /home/test/date.txt
> | 
> | Still not working. I don't have administrator login. I ran the
> | cron_diagnose.sh and it din't give me any errors.
> 
> When you run cron_diagnose.sh you should see the following on the screen:
> **
> If you cannot fix the problem, then report it to cygwin@cygwin.com.
> Please run the script /usr/bin/cronbug and ATTACH its output
> (the file cronbug.txt) to your e-mail.
> **
> Please do that after you have tried to launch cron with cron-config.
> 
> Pierre 
> 
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