Re: Cygwin cron

Roy,

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 02:21:12PM -0400, roypgsqlcygwin(at)xemaps(dot)com wrote:
> 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.

Is your passwd file up to date?

> 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

The above looks fine. What version of Cygwin and cron are you using. I
hope that it is the latest -- 1.3.3 and 3.0.1-5, respectively.

BTW, these types of problems are more appropriate for the
cygwin(at)cygwin(dot)com mailing list.

Jason