Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: crontab error MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C31FB2.E5BC4DCE" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 12:06:11 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: yes X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Harig, Mark A." To: "Chuck" , Note-from-DJ: This may be spam ------_=_NextPart_001_01C31FB2.E5BC4DCE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please run the attached script. It will check some file permissions and other details that need to be set up properly in order for cron to work. It does NOT change anything on your computer, but only diagnoses. You may need to run it several times until it completes successfully (it will stop any time it finds a problem and report to you what problem needs to be corrected). > -----Original Message----- > From: Chuck [mailto:chuckh AT softhome DOT net] > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 9:27 AM > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: crontab error >=20 >=20 > I need a little help getting cron to work. My apologies if=20 > this is answered=20 > somewhere else but I haven't been able to find it. >=20 > I've installed cron as a win2k service using "cygrunsrv -I cron -p=20 > /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -d "Cygwin cron" -e "CYGWIN=3Dtty ntsec" "=20 > as suggested=20 > in another post. When I try to start the service I get "Could=20 > not start the=20 > cygwin cron service on local computer. 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