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Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 13:26:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Chuck Hamilton <chuckh AT softhome DOT net>
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Subject: Re: crontab error
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Chuck,

Cygwin services usually run as LocalSystem.  Did you change the user the
service runs as?
See if /usr/sbin/cron has execute permission set for user SYSTEM (maybe do
a "chmod a+x"?).
	Igor

On Wed, 28 May 2003, Chuck Hamilton wrote:

> I'm finding if I run the cron command manually from a shell window, it
> works. If I try to start it as a service, it fails to start. Below is what I
> found in the win2k application log. Does it help?
>
> "The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( 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: cron : PID 2976 : starting service `cron'
> failed: execv: 1, Operation not permitted."
>
> Is this some sort of a permissions problem? Do I need to start the cron
> service as a specific user?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harig, Mark" <maharig AT idirect DOT net>
> To: "Chuck Hamilton" <chuckh AT softhome DOT net>; <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 1:03 PM
> Subject: RE: crontab error
>
>
> Please re-run the cron_diagnose.sh script
> to see if it can find any problems.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chuck Hamilton [mailto:chuckh AT softhome DOT net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 8:44 AM
> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: Re: crontab error
> >
> >
> > I do have the utilities and I was able to create a group and
> > passwd file. I
> > still get an error trying to start the cron service however.

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