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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:09:29 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: cron 1003.2 - W2k Professionl - not starting
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In-Reply-To: <1ynnbypv.fsf@blue.sea.net>; from jari.aalto@poboxes.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:44:10AM +0300

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:44:10AM +0300, Jari Aalto+tpu.misc wrote:
> 
> 
> I have trouble installing and starting cron with w2k Professional. I'm
> always logged in as Administrator at this home pc.
> 
> I did:
> 
>     cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
>     cygrunsrv -S cron
> 
>     cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1062:
>     The service has not been started.

Did you look into the event log? There might be an error output from cron.
Are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files ok?

> Same error from the w2k "service" panel, cron didn't start. Next I ran
> 
>     strace cron --help 2>&1 cron.strace
> 
> Which gave error
> 
>     seteuid: Invalid argument

Sure. cron needs privileges only given to SYSTEM by default.

Corinna

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