Re: cron fails to run as a service

["Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>]

At 02:13 AM 3/2/2010, Paul McFerrin wrote:
> I've been using "cron" for more that a few weeks without any 
> problems, until my needs changed.  I installed cron as a service 
> using "cygrunsrv".  I keep getting errors about creating 
> lockfile.  I removed the lockfile but it got created again.  At 
> first, I got the Win32 error and ran the cron_diagnose.sh script and 
> got it further along but still nogo.  Attached is a copy of 
> "cronbug.txt" as instructed.  It is trying to start cron, but cron 
> fails to start as a service.  It run perfectly when not a service/
>
> One difference:  the service control manager added a "-n" option to 
> my cron command that I did not specify.  How can I turn off this feature??

Paul,

The -n switch keeps cron in the foreground. This is advisable when 
cron runs under cygrunsrv.

Some of your problems are due to launching a new cron daemon while an 
old one is still running.
If you experiment with cron, you can view the cron log by using "cronevents"

2010/03/01 01:38:45 [Paul] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 368: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0)
2010/03/01 01:47:26 [Paul] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 2508: (CRON) DEATH 
(can't lock /var/run/cron.pid, otherpid may be 368: Resource 
temporarily unavailable)

I will think about your SIGHUP request when I have more time.
How do other Cygwin services handle this?

Pierre


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