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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 AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: problem starting cron as a service
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:37:35 +0100
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Hi Bill,
	Off hand there are a few things to try, but Mark Harig on the cygwin
list seems pretty up on cron, and has a script which will diagnose common
problems, heres a link to a message which has it attached,
<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg01022.html>

	You'll do better keeping messages on list as theres a whole lot more
experience out there than I have. One thing you could try is running cron
manualy from the command line as localsystem and seeing if you get any clues
in the output. (appologys if you have and i missed that message.)

Vince
ps. the output of cygcheck -s -v -r as an uncompressed attachment might help
too.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill McCormick [mailto:wpmccormick AT covad DOT net]
> Sent: 21 July 2003 15:18
> To: Vince Hoffman
> Subject: RE: problem starting cron as a service
> 
> 
> Thanks Vince,
> 
> Nothing in cron.log (file created but empty) and mount is 
> system. Any other
> ideas?
> 
> 
> Bill
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> > Of Vince Hoffman
> > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 4:08 AM
> > To: 'wpmccormick AT covad DOT net'; Cygwin
> > Subject: RE: problem starting cron as a service
> >
> >
> > 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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