Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:09:30 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Arun Biyani cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cron does not start - Hangs "Starting" In-Reply-To: <4378D007.9070406@unix.telasic.com> Message-ID: References: <4378D007.9070406@unix.telasic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII; FORMAT=flowed Content-ID: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 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 . > 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/