On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> 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.
Forgot to mention that if you run cron from the command line, you'll only
be able to execute the crontabs of the user that runs cron.
Igor
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