Re: 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