I've checked the user guide and the FAQ, and I can't find any information about how to start cron and verify that it's working. I found other blog posts on other sites, but some of them are old.
I had installed cron, and I thought it was working, but now I think that it is not. If I edit "~/crontab" and then run "crontab -l", it lists the changes I've made to jobs, so at least that is working. The real job I have didn't appear to be doing what it was supposed to be doing, so I added a new trivial job that just appends output from "date" to a file in my homedir, and after the scheduled time of the job, the file was not created. This is the additional job I added: 40,42,44 * * * * date >> /home/<myuid>/date.txt I did find a "/var/log/cron.log", but it is empty, and the modtime is from a few months ago. One blog post I found talks about running "cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D". I just did this, and it reports "The specified service already exists." This is my uname -a output: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 ... 3.0.3(0.338/5/3) 2019-03-09 19:12 x86_64 Cygwin -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple