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RE: Problems with cron - Almost there
- From: Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>
- To: "'Jarrod Hermer'" <jarrod at mybeat dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: "'Elfyn McBratney'" <elfyn at cygwin dot com>, "'Harig, Mark'" <maharig at idirect dot net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 12:55:53 +0100
- Subject: RE: Problems with cron - Almost there
I think the format for every 5 minutes is
/5 * * * * touch /tmp/test.file
read man 5 crontab rathe than just man crontab.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarrod Hermer [mailto:jarrod@mybeat.net]
> Sent: 02 July 2003 12:51
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc: 'Elfyn McBratney'; 'Harig, Mark'
> Subject: RE: Problems with cron - Almost there
>
>
> Thanks for the help, that seemed to solve my problem.
>
> Now I seem to be stumped by a simple problem. I have read all the cron
> and crontab man pages but still cannot seemed to get my job
> to run every
> 5 minuts. The following causes the hello.txt file to be
> generated every
> minute:
>
> * * * * * echo "Hello World" > /home/Jarrod/hello.txt
>
> So I would expect this to be execute every 5 minutes. It however seems
> to only run at 5 minutes past every hour.
>
> 5 * * * * echo "Hello World" > /home/Jarrod/hello.txt
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jarrod
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harig, Mark [mailto:maharig@idirect.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:45 AM
> To: Jarrod Hermer
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Problems with cron
>
> From your cygcheck text, here are some of your mount
> points:
>
> C:\cygwin / user binmode
> C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin user binmode
> C:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib user binmode
>
> These likely need to be 'system' mount points instead of
> 'user' mount points. This situation probably came about
> if you selected setup.exe's "Install For" option "Just Me"
> instead of "All Users". Please run the attached updated
> cron_diagnose.sh script to see if it helps with your
> problem.
>
>
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