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Re: cron/crontab problems.


Kyle Johnson wrote:
Hi everyone,

I'm having some problems with cron & crontab in cygwin, running on Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Service Pack 4.

What: I have two cronjobs setup, running at a 3 hour difference. The first job runs at 7PM, Monday through Friday, and tar -cjPf's .DBF files in a certain directory. The next script runs at 10PM, Monday through Friday, and tar -cjPf's * files in a certain directory. These were working OK for a few days, then they stopped. I noticed this when I checked on the backups the following day, and found that all of the recently made files were only 42b big, as opposed to 128MB or such.

If I run the contents of the scripts from the command line, everything works OK.

I have pasted all relevant information at http://paste.fixertec.net/5

Also, today, I ran 'crontab -e' from the command line, and I got the error from lines 30 to 34, at http://paste.fixertec.net/5.
I then ran 'net stop cron' and 'net start cron', which then allowed me to do a 'crontab -e' successfully.


Any ideas?


Sure.

  1.  Install, read the README, and run rebaseall.
  2.  Try a snapshot <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>.
  3.  Follow the problem reporting guidelines if one of the 2 options above
      doesn't fix your problem <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.


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