Re: cron and cygrunsrv 0.94

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 07:58:14PM +0200, Karim Jouhari wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I manage to launch the cron service using :
>     cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
>     cygrunsrv -S cron
> 
> If I type "ps -e", I can see that the cron process is running.
> Using "crontab -e", I set up a call to a script that prints "hello" in a log
> file. This script works pretty well on the command-line. But nothing happens
> from the cron !!! Of course my crontab setting is correct (I'm quite
> familiar with Unix stuff).
> 
> A "man cron" tells that cron is looking in /var/spool/cron/tabs for crontab
> files but on my system (Win2K professionnal) this directory does not exist
> !! Indeed, my crontab files are generated in /var/cron/tabs !

That's ok. I configured it to do so.

Try the following:

- Check the NT event log. It could give a hint what's going wrong.

- Set the env var CYGWIN to a defined value containg `ntsec' in the
  service setting:

  cygrunsrv -E cron
  cygrunsrv -R cron
  cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e "CYGWIN=tty ntsec"
  cygrunsrv -S cron

- Check your /etc/passwd AND /etc/group files. Perhaps it's better
  to regenerate them using mkpasswd and mkgroup again.

- If you still have problems try the next developers snapshot of
  Cygwin. I checked in a patch today which solves a problem when
  switching user context.

Corinna

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