Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/02/14/15:40:23
Yes, that's unusual. I think I'll leave out a check for this problem at
this time. I wonder if anyone knows of a general purpose tool for
checking the validity or sanity of the /etc/group and /etc/passwd files?
Have you tried adding 'SYSTEM' to group 544 via the /etc/group file?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: House, Mark [mailto:Mark DOT House AT MSL DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 11:25 AM
> To: Harig, Mark A.; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: cron - Error starting a service:
> QueryServiceStatus: Win32
> error 1062:
>
>
> Mark,
>
> Thanks for responding to this.
>
> I found the problem. Apparently, I had tried to add the
> SYSTEM account to a second group. So, that in my /etc/passwd
> file it looked like SYSTEM:*:18:18,544:,S-1-5-18::/bin/bash
>
> This caused the problem. I went and removed that ,544 and my
> cron service has started up.
>
> Perhaps adding a check on the proper SYSTEM account in
> /etc/passwd to cron_diagnose.sh may be appropriate. Although,
> I'm not too sure that anyone else will do anything quite this strange.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harig, Mark A. [mailto:maharig AT idirect DOT net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 6:48 PM
> To: House, Mark; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: cron - Error starting a service:
> QueryServiceStatus: Win32
> error 1062:
>
>
> I can't see any glaring errors. Here a some things you might try:
>
> 1. You're running Windows 2000, SP2. Is there any reason you haven't
> installed SP3?
> I doubt that this has any effect, but it might be worth trying.
>
> 2. You have Windows 2000 installed on your 'c:' drive, but Cygwin is
> installed
> on your 'd:' drive. You might try installing a minimal Cygwin on
> your 'c:'
> drive, and retrying cron. Have you been running Cygwin
> on 'd:' all
> along?
>
> If you find a fix that you think could be detected by the
> cron_diagnose.sh
> script, please let me know so that it can improve.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: House, Mark [mailto:Mark DOT House AT MSL DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 10:45 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: cron - Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32
> error 1062:
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been experiencing this error ever since I rebooted
> my server. I
> am now unable to start the cron service. I have attached my cygcheck
> file and I have run cron_diagnose.sh as suggested by Mark A. Harig on
> his posting on 20-Dec-2002.
>
> In addition, I have uninstalled and reinstalled the cron
> service and I
> have reinstalled the cron and cygrunsrv components.
>
> I am using Win2000 Server. My Event Log displays the
> following error.
> The following information is part of the event: cron : Win32
> Process Id = 0x9A0 : Cygwin Process Id = 0x9A0 : starting
> service `cron'
> failed: execv: 1, Operation not permitted.
>
> I would appreciate any suggestions that you can offer.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> <<cygcheck.txt>>
>
>
>
>
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