Mysterious Cron error solved
Michael Jervis
mike@skinmaster.co.uk
Mon Jun 23 17:58:00 GMT 2003
I'd been trying to get cron running for a day or three. Came accross someone
who had the EXACT same problem as me:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg00624.html
But found no solution.
Now I have solved it, so here is my solution:
/var/run was set to be owned by my user. Not the SYSTEM user. Which meant
that cron service was unable to write the cron.pid file into that folder.
A swift chmod a+w allowed me to start cron.
Hopefuly this will help someone else!
Mike
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