Can't start cron daemon in Cygwin 1.5.23 under WinXP SP2

[Steve Rowley]

>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:16:19 -0800
>From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
>
>Steve Rowley wrote:
>>     >In case of problem, examine the log file for cron,
>>     >/var/log/cron.log, and the Windows event log
>>     >for information about the problem cron is having.
>
>This is the key thing to look at, the actual reason for why it can't
>start should be in one of those two locations.

Excellent points.  Here are the results:

(1) There is no /var/log/cron.log.  Since this is the first time I've
    tried to bring up cron on this machine, I take it to indicate that
    the daemon never got as far as creating its log file.

(2) Windows event log: yes, there are some cron-related events there.
    Had I read the message as carefully as you did, I would have
    found Application events like this:

    >Event Type:	Error
    >Event Source:	cron
    >Event Category:	None
    >Event ID:	0
    >Date:		1/22/2007
    >Time:		11:00:27 PM
    >User:		NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
    >Computer:	CBDWB00033
    >Description:
    >The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( 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. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: cron: PID 304: starting service `cron' failed: fork: 11, Resource temporarily unavailable.

Any idea what to make of that?

>>     >/usr/bin/cygrunsrv: Error enumerating services: OpenService:  Win32 error 5:
>>     >Access is denied.
>
>This usually just means there's a registry key for a service that has an
>ACL that returns an error when cygrunsrv tries to query its information
>to find out if it's a Cygwin service.  Most of the time this can be
>ignored [...]

Good, then we'll all happily ignore it.

>> [ATTACHMENT ~/My Documents/cygcheck_output.txt, text/plain]
>
>You didn't actually attach anything, just this text.

Silly me.  I actually understand why that happened, but won't bore you
with the reason, unless I can think of an entertaining way to tell it.
In any case, I've reattached the output of cygchek to this message.

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