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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040702134345.033af4d0@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 13:44:31 -0400 To: william.b.parsons@us.westinghouse.com, cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Trouble starting cron (solved) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:21 PM 7/2/2004, you wrote: >Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> 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? > >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 > >The Event log showed nothing, but running the script resulted in: > > cron_diagnose.sh 1.2 > > Your computer does not appear to have a /etc/cron.d directory. > Please investigate this problem, and run this script again. > >Sure enough, after creating the directory cron now works. Neat script. >Thanks! (Shouldn't the installation have created the directory, though?) Yes. The postinstall script will do it if it can (and if it runs). -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/