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: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere To: Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 23:00:22 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: cron problem in event log Reply-to: gp AT familiehaase DOT de Message-ID: <3B6C7E86.11712.9DBD563@localhost> In-reply-to: <00d801c11c55$bc6a5e50$a590f6cc@aho> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) X-Hops: 1 X-Sender: 320081107336-0001 AT t-dialin DOT net Amy Ho schrieb am 2001-08-03, 13:51: >Hi cygwin guru: I'm no guru:-) >I installed cron 3.0.1-4 the latest version on window 2000. >From the event log viewer: I have the following error message: > >The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /USR/SBIN/CRON ) cannot be >found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or > message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following >information is part of the event: /USR/SBIN/CRON : Win32 Process Id = 0x8 >F0 : Cygwin Process Id = 0x8F0 : (Administrator) CMD (echo >`date`>>/tmp/cron.out). >Any idea how to fix this? I think you're missing sh-utils package. $ which date /bin/date $ date --version date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0 Written by David MacKenzie. Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. >I have tried to do > >mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd >mkgroup -l >/etc/group > >and restart the cron, but it doesn't help. -- =^..^= -- 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/