Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: problem of cron in cygwin xp, final solution! Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:45:57 -0700 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <3F78F297.7020800@yoda.bsd.uchicago.edu> <3F79A42B.2090906@yoda.bsd.uchicago.edu> <3F79AE98.8060807@yoda.bsd.uchicago.edu> <3F79BC86.4050607@yoda.bsd.uchicago.edu> <3F79CF21.3020909@yoda.bsd.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <3F79CF21.3020909@yoda.bsd.uchicago.edu> Chunyu Liu wrote: > Igor, > > This link you gave me is the final solution. I experienced exactly > the same problem as Andrew described. BTDT! Glad my troubles helped you get cron working. > To make the life easier for the other followers: > 1. Need to set the mode of cygwin1.dll > > $ chmod +x /bin/cygwin1.dll > 2. Need to create another directory $ mkdir /etc/cron.d > Also make it accessible, by changing the permission. > 3. Then, follow the standard guideline to start cron service, as > $ cygrunsrv --stop cron > $ cygrunsrv --remove cron > $ cygrunsrv --install cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D > $ cygrunsrv --start cron > > > Hopefully, this troubling problem can be solved in the next version > cygwin setup. Maybe such things should be added to Mark Harig's "cron_diagnose.sh"? === "Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes." -- 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/