Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:09:29 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: cron 1003.2 - W2k Professionl - not starting Message-ID: <20010712090929.A421@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: Corinna Vinschen , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <1ynnbypv.fsf@blue.sea.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1ynnbypv.fsf@blue.sea.net>; from jari.aalto@poboxes.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:44:10AM +0300 On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:44:10AM +0300, Jari Aalto+tpu.misc wrote: > > > I have trouble installing and starting cron with w2k Professional. I'm > always logged in as Administrator at this home pc. > > I did: > > cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D > cygrunsrv -S cron > > cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: > The service has not been started. Did you look into the event log? There might be an error output from cron. Are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files ok? > Same error from the w2k "service" panel, cron didn't start. Next I ran > > strace cron --help 2>&1 cron.strace > > Which gave error > > seteuid: Invalid argument Sure. cron needs privileges only given to SYSTEM by default. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/