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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: crontab error
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 11:51:38 -0700
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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?
>
You might try stopping cron and doing:

$ rm -rf /var/cron
$  rm -rf /var/run/cron.pid
$  rm -rf /var/log/cron.log

Then restarting cron.



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