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From: Erik Bak-Mikkelsen <ebm AT oss DOT dk>
Message-Id: <200107112134.VAA06673@mdve.oss.dk>
Subject: Re: error starting cron on nt4
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com (Corinna Vinschen)
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 101 21:34:43 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <20010711203919.A29492@cygbert.vinschen.de> from "Corinna Vinschen" at Jul 11, 1 08:39:19 pm
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> 
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:07:53PM +0000, Erik Bak-Mikkelsen wrote:
> > I did an
> >  mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd
> >  mkpasswd -g >/etc/group
> 
> Ack! That should be  `mkgroup -l >/etc/group'. Otherwise it's possible
> that the context switch doesn't work.
You got it. Sure that was the problem.

My crontab holding the line
0-59 * * * * date>>/tmp/file

gives the wanted result. Meanwhile, changing to
0-59 * * * * /cygdrive/mydrive/notepad.exe

I get windows pop-ups saying that
"Initialization of dynamic link library c:\....\comctl32.dll failed. the 
process is terminating abnormally."

Are there any special precautions to take when running win32 program from the cygwin cron?
regards
Erik Bak-Mikkelsen

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