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Date:	Fri, 2 Jul 2004 12:48:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To:	william DOT b DOT parsons AT us DOT westinghouse DOT com
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Trouble starting cron
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On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Will Parsons wrote:

> I am trying to get cron working and am having difficulties.  I installed
> the following minimal crontab:
>
> $ crontab -l
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (crontab.wbp installed on Tue Jun 29 07:47:31 2004)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $)
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/date.log
>
> And installed cron using:
>
> $ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
>
> Trying to start:
>
> $ cygrunsrv -S cron
> /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1062:
> The service has not been started.
>
> /var/log/cron shows:
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This should be /var/log/cron.log, right?

> [569] cron started

A couple of other things to try -- look in the Windows Event log, and run
the cron_diagnose.sh script (search the archives).  FWIW, your mounts look
fine, so I'd suspect a permission problem of some sort.
	Igor
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