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Message-ID: | <4379043D.6030703@unix.telasic.com> |
Date: | Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:40:13 -0800 |
From: | Arun Biyani <abiyani AT unix DOT telasic DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Cron does not start - Hangs "Starting" |
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Arun Biyani wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to get cron to work reliably on my pc (runs Windows XP). >> When I type >> cygrunsrv -S cron >> I get an error message that the service did not respond in a timely >> fashion. Looking under services from Control Panel, cron status is >> listed as "Starting". >> I cannot stop it by using cygrunsrv either. > > > Known problem, see <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-11/msg00382.html>. > >> cron was installed using cron-config. >> Output of cygcheck -srv is enclosed. /var/log/cron.log has no messages. > > > There may be messages in the Windows Event Log that could provide a clue > as to what went wrong. > HTH, > Igor Apparently, not all mirrors (mirrors.kernel.org) have this update. I used another to get the new cygrunsrv. That solved the problem. Thx Arun -- 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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