Sir, (Sendmail is not installed) When I pass the 'make' command to anacron, I get the following error; /bin/sh -ec "cc -MM -DSPOOLDIR=\"/var/spool/anacron\" -DRELEASE=\"2.3\" -DANACRONTAB=\"/etc/anacrontab\" runjob.c \ | sed '1s/^\(.*\)\.o[ :]*/\1.d &/1' > runjob.d" /bin/sh -ec "cc -MM -DSPOOLDIR=\"/var/spool/anacron\" -DRELEASE=\"2.3\" -DANACRONTAB=\"/etc/anacrontab\" readtab.c \ | sed '1s/^\(.*\)\.o[ :]*/\1.d &/1' > readtab.d" /bin/sh -ec "cc -MM -DSPOOLDIR=\"/var/spool/anacron\" -DRELEASE=\"2.3\" -DANACRONTAB=\"/etc/anacrontab\" matchrx.c \ | sed '1s/^\(.*\)\.o[ :]*/\1.d &/1' > matchrx.d" /bin/sh -ec "cc -MM -DSPOOLDIR=\"/var/spool/anacron\" -DRELEASE=\"2.3\" -DANACRONTAB=\"/etc/anacrontab\" main.c \ | sed '1s/^\(.*\)\.o[ :]*/\1.d &/1' > main.d" /bin/sh -ec "cc -MM -DSPOOLDIR=\"/var/spool/anacron\" -DRELEASE=\"2.3\" -DANACRONTAB=\"/etc/anacrontab\" log.c \ | sed '1s/^\(.*\)\.o[ :]*/\1.d &/1' > log.d" /bin/sh -ec "cc -MM -DSPOOLDIR=\"/var/spool/anacron\" -DRELEASE=\"2.3\" -DANACRONTAB=\"/etc/anacrontab\" lock.c \ | sed '1s/^\(.*\)\.o[ :]*/\1.d &/1' > lock.d" /bin/sh -ec "cc -MM -DSPOOLDIR=\"/var/spool/anacron\" -DRELEASE=\"2.3\" -DANACRONTAB=\"/etc/anacrontab\" gregor.c \ | sed '1s/^\(.*\)\.o[ :]*/\1.d &/1' > gregor.d" cc -c -DSPOOLDIR=\"/var/spool/anacron\" -DRELEASE=\"2.3\" -DANACRONTAB=\"/etc/anacrontab\" gregor.c -o gregor.o Regards On 07/08/07, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On tor, 2007-08-02 at 21:07 +0530, Santosh Rani wrote: > > I have setup cron under Cygwin to update my malware list on the Squid > > that is running on Windows. > > I want to setup a cron job which rotates the Squid log files when the > > system is started up in the morning for the first time. > > For running daily/weekly tasks on machines which is turned off from time > to time anacron is a good choice. It's like cron but doesn't assume the > machine is always on and will start the jobs which should have run while > the machine was off when it starts. > > The setup consists of three parts: > > a) anacron, with it's anacrontab describing the tasks to run > b) cron or another scheduler, with a crontab entry running anacron once > per day at a suitable time. > c) A boot action running anacron once at boot. > > Note: The scheduler in Windows is a usable substitute for cron, and also > allows you to set up boot actions. Not sure it also deals with jobs > which should have been run while the machine was off. > > Regards > Henrik > >
