Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: Erik Bak-Mikkelsen 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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text > > 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 -- 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/