On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Lst Recv wrote: > I'm having trouble using cron on cygwin. > > I just installed cron using setup.exe. It didn't create any rc.d files, > so I started it manually by typing cron at the prompt. (I'm a member of > group 0). Although the cron process is running, it doesn't seem to be > running my cron job.
Since you're on WinXP, you have two options: run cron from the command line, or run it as a service. To install it as a service, please run the cron-config script. > Any suggestions on what to do? My goal is to get the machine to shut > itself off at a certain time (necessary to stop those late night > hack-sessions!). First test it with the "hello world" of crontabs: * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/CRON_DATE 2>&1 There are at least two potential problems with your crontab: no explicit path to the executable (don't assume the PATH is going to be the same as the one you have in your shell), and no stdout/stderr redirection (which means cron will try -- and fail -- to mail you the output). Also, check out the Windows Event Log for any messages from cron. > PS Is there a way to change the title of the cygwin window, like I can > type "title" in a cmd window? Look at the (commented out) definition of the "settitle()" function in your .bashrc. Note that as-is, the definition there is wrong: to be able to use it, you'll need to change "^[" to the actual Esc character, and "^G" to the actual Ctrl-G character. Or use the following definition (will only work in bash): function settitle() { echo -ne "\e]2;[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; } HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/