cron not working

Mon Mar 29 19:58:00 GMT 2010

Thanks for letting me know the problem.
It worked after giving some time.
Rajashekar.
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Pierre A. Humblet
<Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org> wrote:
> At 06:22 PM 3/28/2010, Rajashekar Chintalapati wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>  I am trying to run a simple script using crontab.
>>>> $ more /cygdrive/c/list
>> ls -ltr /cygdrive/c/ > /tmp/li.txt
>>>> $ crontab -l
>> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
>> # (/tmp/crontab.ry22Lho7uW installed on Sun Mar 28 14:03:55 2010)
>> # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004年01月23日 18:56:42 vixie
>> Exp $)
>> 4 14 * * * /cygdrive/c/list
>>>>>> <snip>
>>>> Please find attachment - cronbug.txt
>> It once run correctly, i am able to see in logs too.
>> 2010年03月28日 01:00:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 4060: (Administrator)
>> RELOAD (tabs/Administrator)
>> 2010年03月28日 01:01:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 4068: (Administrator)
>> CMD (/cygdrive/c/list > /tmp/error.log 2>&1)
>>>>>> But after that not sure what went wrong, if i change the time, cron is
>> not executing the /cygdrive/c/list.
>>>> Can you please let us know what may be the problem.
>> The problem is that you set the time in the crontab "just right" so that you
> hope
> cron will execute it at the next minute.
> # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004年01月23日 18:56:42 vixie Exp
> $)
> 4 14 * * * /cygdrive/c/list
>> Unfortunately for you, cron procrastinates. At the next minute cron reloads
> the
> crontab, but it only executes the commands at the following minute.
>> 2010年03月28日 01:00:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 4060: (Administrator)
> RELOAD (tabs/Administrator)
> 2010年03月28日 01:01:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 4068: (Administrator) CMD
> (/cygdrive/c/list > /tmp/error.log 2>&1)
>> 2010年03月28日 14:04:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 4060: (Administrator)
> RELOAD (tabs/Administrator)
> 2010年03月28日 14:04:31 [Administrator] crontab: PID 1040: (Administrator) LIST
> (Administrator)
>> The first time you gave cron the extra minute it needed. The second time you
> didn't.
>> Pierre
>>>
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