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RE: cron.hourly
- From: "Reid Thompson" <Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com>
- To: "Reid Thompson" <Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com>, "Totte Karlsson" <tkarlsson at qm dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:01:25 -0400
- Subject: RE: cron.hourly
Reid Thompson wrote:
> Totte Karlsson wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have started cron as a service under Windows 2000. I 'naively'
>> created a directory, /etc/cron.hourly and put a script in there. I
>> had hoped that cron would execute the script once every hour but it
>> does not work.
>>
>> How do I get the folders /etc/cron.hourly, etc/cron.daily
>> etc/cron.weekly correctly working in cygwin? regards -totte
>
> $ cat exampleCronFile
> #* * * * * command to be executed
> #- - - - -
> #| | | | |
> #| | | | +----- day of week (1 - 7) (monday = 1)
> #| | | +------- month (1 - 12)
> #| | +--------- day of month (1 - 31)
> #| +----------- hour (0 - 23)
> #+------------- min (0 - 59)
>
> 05 15 5 2 * /path/to/executable >/path/to/logfile
cron hourly
00 * * * * /path/to/executable >/path/to/logfile
will run at the top of each hour
30 * * * * /path/to/executable >/path/to/logfile
will run at the bottom of each hour
etc...
reid
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