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Brian Dessent wrote: > Hank Statscewich wrote: > >> Great suggestion. In /var/log/cron.log there were 17 lines of: >> /usr/sbin/cron: can't open or create /var/run/cron.pid: Permission denied >> >> So I just changed permission of the file to 777 and cron started up >> just fine. >> I rebooted and lo and behold cron is still running. I'm changing >> permission >> back to something more appropriate now. I am now a fully satisfied >> cygwin user. >> Thansk for such a great port of linux onto windows, Cygwin is the >> best of both >> worlds (at least for now :) > > > Hmm, seems to me like checking ownership and permissions of cron.pid > would be something the cron_diagnose.sh should do. What happened was > that you ran it initially as your normal user account, and the pid > file was created. Then when you tried to start it as a service, it was > running as the SYSTEM account which didn't have permissions to > overwrite the file. The solution would be to either just remove it and > let cron recreate it, or "chown SYSTEM:SYSTEM /var/run/cron.pid". Then > you could give it more restrictive permissions than 777, perhaps 640 > or 600. You should also check the ownership/permissions of /var/cron* and /var/log/cron.log. When I setup cron I normally do: # Make sure that certain directories and files do not exist! This is to let # cron create them, which appears to be the only way to get these created # correctly! if [ ! -d /var/cron ]; then rm -rf /var/cron rm -rf /var/run/cron.pid rm -rf /var/log/cron.log # Install cron service: cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -d "Cygwin cron" -e "MAILTO=$USER AT Salira DOT com" -e "CYGWIN=ntsec" fi # Start cron service cygrunsrv -S cron -- 3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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