You might try looking at the application event log for cron errors. I just
got cron going this week. I read somewhere that you should have ntsec in
the CYGWIN environment variable. This worked for me. See
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-07/msg01069.html
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From: <roypgsqlcygwin@xemaps.com>
To: <pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] Cygwin cron
> OK, I am running cron as a service now but I'm still not getting the
results I want.
>
> I looked in my /etc/group file and have this:
> Everyone:S-1-1-0:0:
> SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
> etc.
>
> So my SYSTEM group is there. In my crontab file I have this right now:
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/bin/date >>
/home/mydir/blah.txt
> 0 1 * * * /usr/bin/vacuumdb -h localhost -U postgres -d mydb -v -q >>
/home/
> mydir/vacuumlog.txt
>
> But the first one isn't running, or is it a permission issue with
files/directories? If it is a permission thing where is the most
appropriate place to write output/log files in the world of Unix for cron?
>
> Thanx again. I hope I'm not getting annoying, I have been doing searches
on the archives but I can't seem to find anything.
>
> Roy.
>
> > Did you forget to read the README again?
> >
> > $ fgrep cygrunsrv /usr/doc/cygwin/cron.README
> > cygrunsrv. Install as service like that:
> > cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
> >
> > Or, did you just forgot to start the service?
> >
> > $ net start cron
>
>
>
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