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Re: Trouble starting cron
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: william dot b dot parsons at us dot westinghouse dot com
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 12:48:11 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Trouble starting cron
- References: <slrnceb20i.ak.wbparsons@l1409613.ct.wec.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Will Parsons wrote:
> I am trying to get cron working and am having difficulties. I installed
> the following minimal crontab:
>
> $ crontab -l
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (crontab.wbp installed on Tue Jun 29 07:47:31 2004)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $)
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/date.log
>
> And installed cron using:
>
> $ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
>
> Trying to start:
>
> $ cygrunsrv -S cron
> /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062:
> The service has not been started.
>
> /var/log/cron shows:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This should be /var/log/cron.log, right?
> [569] cron started
A couple of other things to try -- look in the Windows Event log, and run
the cron_diagnose.sh script (search the archives). FWIW, your mounts look
fine, so I'd suspect a permission problem of some sort.
Igor
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