Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/05/06/19:17:41
Mark,
Thanks for the sugestion. So, I just ran cron diagnose.sh (ver. 1.5) and it
tells me that my cron is installed just fine, but even a simple "hello world"
doesnt work. This is pretty wierd because if I do a ps -elf cron doesn't show
up anywhere, here's the output:
UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND
SYSTEM 640 1 ? 21:55:14 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
SYSTEM 672 640 ? 21:55:15 /usr/sbin/sshd
stats 1136 1 0 21:55:41 /usr/bin/bash
stats 1380 1136 0 23:14:40 /usr/bin/ps
I went throught the suggested steps of remove, uninstall, reinstall and
starting the service, but I get the same error message as before:
$ cygrunsrv -S cron > error.cron
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062:
The service has not been started.
So I removed /var/run/cron.pid and tried the suggested steps once more, but
alas, same error.
Am I totally missing something here? In the
file /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README, it says:
"On NT/W2K run cron under SYSTEM account
as service to use that feature."
Is there a way to run cron under the SYSTEM account, i.e. do I need to login as
SYSTEM and repeat the steps described above?
Thansk for your help.
Hank
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Quoting "Harig, Mark" <maharig AT idirect DOT net>:
> Please run cron_diagnose.sh version 1.5.
> Numerous bugs have been found and fixed.
>
> This version can be found (as an attachment)
> on the mailing list at:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00379.html
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hank Statscewich
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 8:12 PM
> > To: cygwin
> > Subject: CRON problems
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been doing my best to read all the previous FAQ pages,
> > README documents,
> > and forum posts, but I am still having issues getting my cron
> > jobs to run the
> > way I want them to. If I explicitly start cron by calling
> > /usr/sbin/cron, then
> > my jobs run fine, but my application demands that the
> > computer be rebooted
> > daily and I will not be onsite to issue this comand. I would
> > like cron to start
> > up after reboot automatically and if I understand correctly, this is
> > accomplished by following the instructions in
> > cron_diagnose.sh which describe
> > how to shutdown the cron service, uninstall it, reinstall it
> > and start it.
> > Everything works just fine except for starting the service,
> > when I run:
> > cygrunsrv -S cron. I get this error message:
> > cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:
> > Win32 error 1062:
> > The service has not been started.
> >
> > After reading through some more posts I have become
> > thoroughly confused, so I
> > have resorted to asking for help.
> > The output from cron_diagnose.sh is:
> > cron_diagnose.sh 1.2
> >
> > This script did not find any errors in your crontab setup.
> > If you are still unable to get cron to work, then try
> > shutting down the cron service, uninstalling it,
> > reinstalling it, and restarting it.
> >
> > The following commands will do that:
> > $ cygrunsrv --stop cron
> > $ cygrunsrv --remove cron
> > $ cygrunsrv --install cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
> > $ cygrunsrv --start cron
> >
> > If none of this fixes the problem, then report your problem
> > to cygwin AT cygwin DOT com. Please include a copy of your crontab,
> > ('crontab -l') and the output of 'cygcheck -srv > cygcheck.txt'.
> >
> > PLEASE include the generated files 'cygcheck.txt' *as an attachment*,
> > and NOT in the body of the mail message.
> >
> >
> > My crontab looks like this:
> > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> > # (/tmp/crontab.1244 installed on Wed May 5 23:57:19 2004)
> > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41
> > corinna Exp $)
> > 53 21 * * * shutdown -r -f now
> > 58 * * * * tcsh /home/stats/Trans/programs/hourly_mover.tcsh
> > 03 22 * * * tcsh /home/stats/Trans/programs/daily_mover.tcsh
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help. I have attatched
> > cygcheck.txt as instructed.
> >
> > Hank
> >
> > --
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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