[1.7 2009-07-01] cygrunsrv not responding?

[Brian Ford]

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 01:26:31PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
> >For a few months with my own CVS cygwin1.dll builds, as well now with
> >the last few snapshots, I can't get cron to start:
> >
> >$ net start cron
> >The service is not responding to the control function.
> >
> >More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2186.
> >
> >Reverting to 1.7.0-50 cygwin1.dll fixes this problem.
> >
> >Cron is installed as a service under the cyg_server user.

It was a stupid permissions problem.  The cyg_server user didn't have
permission to the newly installed CVS or snapshot cygwin1.dll, but the
setup installed release had correct permissions.  Doh!

> WJFFM.

Thanks for trying to help!

-- 
Brian Ford
Staff Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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