Event Log Errors

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Nov 20 16:02:00 GMT 2001


On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:28:13PM +1300, Dan Horne wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've just set up the cron service. My test cron job runs, but I get the
> following in the event log:
> 
> The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /USR/SBIN/CRON ) cannot be
> found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or
> message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following
> information is part of the event: /USR/SBIN/CRON : Win32 Process Id = 0x5A0
> : Cygwin Process Id = 0x5A0 : (dhorne) CMD (/usr/bin/ls / > /tmp/root.ls
> 2>&1)

This is the syslog output of cron which it does on all systems.
It tells you that the above command `/usr/bin/ls ...' has been run 
by user dhorne.  I'm pretty sure the message has no "STOP" sign
in the event viewer message list but an "I" bubble, right?

> Is this important?  How do I fix it?

Nothing to fix.  Unfortunately you can't get rid of the annoying
"The description for Event ID ..." blah, blah which is Windows
gabby way to tell you that it has no pointer to an error message
inside of some message file.

Corinna

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