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From: Vince Hoffman <Vince DOT Hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com>
To: "'wpmccormick AT covad DOT net'" <wpmccormick AT covad DOT net>,
   Cygwin
	 <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: problem starting cron as a service
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:08:10 +0100
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anything in /var/log/cron.log ?

and are you mounts system or user ? 
ie.
$ mount |grep "/ type system"

should give something like

h:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill McCormick [mailto:wpmccormick AT covad DOT net]
> Sent: 21 July 2003 08:25
> To: Cygwin
> Subject: problem starting cron as a service
> 
> 
> I get this in the win app error log:
> 
> Event Type:	Error
> Event Source:	cron
> Event Category:	None
> Event ID:	0
> Date:		7/21/2003
> Time:		2:14:08 AM
> User:		BILLHOME\Administrator
> Computer:	BILLHOME
> Description:
> 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 2276 : starting 
> service `cron'
> failed: execv: 0, No error.
> 
> While trying to start the service as Administrator (or from 
> LocalSytems
> account). I rm'd /var/run/cron.pid and /var/log/cron.log 
> before trying to
> start.
> 
> Thanks
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