php scripts dying in cron, runs fine in task scheduler (W2k3)

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

jd list wrote:
> I'm running cygwin on W2K3 with php built into windows via the binary
> from php.net.
> 
> I run php scripts, via cron, at freqent intervals, one is a simple
> database script that copies data from a back-end database to a
> front-end database, which has been running fine within cron for many
> many months. - runs every two minutes
> 
> The second script, also every two minutes, that reads xml files, from
> 50Kb to 400Kb,  and inserts this data into a sybase (back-end)
> database. At any given time there is anywhere from 5-20+ files that it
> will need to process.
> 
> The problem is, the second script dies at various parts of the script,
> with no consistency.  When this was first seen, php was throwing
> errors on the console that it had ran out of memory, at that time i
> had cron running as part of the Administrators Group, but not as
> Administrator - username was cron_server.  When this was seen, i
> reinstalled cron (and cygwin to the lastest versions of everything)
> and ran the serivce as Administrator, which stopped php from throwing
> errors, but did not stop the script from dying mid-stream.


<snip>


> 
> Selected output from cygcheck -s -v -r
> 
> With cygwin version -
>     Cygwin DLL version info:
>         DLL version: 1.5.18


Does it work any better or worse with a recent snapshot?
<cygwin.com/snapshots>


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