[ cron/crontab ] someone using cron on cygwin?

Fri May 4 22:46:00 GMT 2001

>>>>> "Gerrit" == Gerrit P Haase <gerrit.haase@t-online.de> writes:

[Disclaimer: I'm no cygwin expert so some of this may be innaccurate]
 Gerrit> Dear Corinna, $ crontab crontab: can't obtain passwd
 Gerrit> entry.
Possibly because your /etc/passwd doesn't exist or has no entry for
the user you are logged in as.
 Gerrit> I don't know how to use crontab.
It depends upon the cron daemon which I don't believe is standard with
cygwin (but I meybe wrong). I suggest you search the archives for cron
to gain more info.
 Gerrit> Is it possible to create a crontabfile manually? How is
 Gerrit> the syntax?
man 5 crontab describes the crontab format. man 1 crontab describes
how to install your crontab in the system so that cron will use it. Again this is for a Unix system, for cygwin, check the archives.
Sincerely,
Adrian Phillips
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