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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:00:31 -0800
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Do you have C:\Cygwin\Bin in your Windows System Environment Variable 
PATH? Have you rebooted since you've put it in your PATH?

Christopher Paulicka wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Sorry to bother you, but I am trying to get cron to
> work on my Windows 2000 machine.
> 
> I installed cron as instructed here:
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00077.html
> 
> which was:
> 
>   cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
> 
> My $(id) was:
> 
> uid=500(Administrator) gid=513(None) groups=513(None)
> 
> If I now go to services, "cron" is listed as a
> service, but is not running.
> 
> When I try to start it, I get an error from the
> Microsoft Management Console:
> 
> "Could not start the cron service on Local Computer.
> The service did not return an error.  This could be an
> internal Windows error or an internal service error. 
> If the problem persists, contact your system
> administrator."
> 
> Do you have any suggestions for how to get cron
> working?  I would really appreciate it.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Christopher Paulicka
> christopher_paulicka AT hp DOT com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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