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Re: Unable to get CRON to work
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: "Sachar, Bradley (NIH/OD)" <SacharB at OD dot NIH dot GOV>, "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:10:55 -0400
- Subject: Re: Unable to get CRON to work
- References: <3FAF4C075315FA4882BC2A9869A64F5699BAFA@nihexchange15.nih.gov>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 05:51 PM 4/12/2004, you wrote:
>Cygwin Support,
>
>I have done a new installation of cygwin into the C:\cygwin folder. CRON
>does not seem to be waking up and executing the crontab. I have run the
>cron_diagnose.sh program and it told me to run a cygcheck. Output from both
>are attached.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>Thanks,
>Brad Sachar
>301 435-2408
Try:
* * * * * /bin/echo "hi" > /cygdrive/h/test.txt
If that's still a problem, put 'test.txt' in a local directory.
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