Cannot start cron

a12 a12@swipnet.se
Mon Mar 10 00:27:00 GMT 2003


Hi gurus,

After installing cron, I did 'ps -ef' and found that cron was
not started. So I checked /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README, and I
tried to start the Windows service using:
cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
Then I checked Windows processes, and no cron.exe was there, so
I tried to start the Windows service manually, and got:
Could not start thecron service on Local Computer.
The service did not return an error. This could be an internal
Windows error or an internal service error.

Following http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-08/msg00329.html
I created manually:
mkdir -p /var/cron
chmod 1777 /var/cron
mkdir /var/cron/tabs
chmod 1777 /var/cron/tabs
and started Cygwin bash:
sysaccount@rrback ~
$ cron
seteuid: Permission denied

What does the last error mean ?

How do I start cron properly ?

/Marek


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