Re: cron not running jobs, no errors

[Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>]

Alexfed wrote:

> cron service with no errors. I ssued the following commands to install and
> run cron.
> cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
> cygrunsrv -S cron

Why?  That is not how you install the cron service.  There is much more
to be done, in fact there is a cron-config script provided (that is
nearly 900 lines of shell code) to do all the various tasks. 
Specifically, on windows 2003 you must create a special service account
and give it extra privileges as the SYSTEM account cannot change uids.

So erase this broken service and run cron-config instead.  If that still
fails then run cron_diagnose.sh and attach its results.

Brian

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