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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Buck Turgidson" Subject: Re: Cannot Start Cron Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:11:56 -0400 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Please check your C:\WINNT40 for other utilities, such as 'cron.exe'. Consider deleting these programs, or moving them to another directory in your PATH. 3. Please examine your /var/log/cron.log to see if it provides any useful messages. 4. Please provide a copy of your crontab: $ crontab -l > crontab.txt 5. Run the following command to check your cygwin packages: $ cygcheck -c | fgrep Incomplete If any packages are listed, then consider running 'setup.exe' and selecting the 'Reinstall' option. Also, at some point, consider the possibility of converting your C drive's file system from FAT to NTFS, if doing that conversion won't cause other problems. Windows provides the 'convert' command for this purpose. -------------- No dups on cron. I do have it as an NT startup service, and I get an error upon booting saying that it couldn't be started. I wonder if that means something. Maybe it is being started as the wrong user? Nothing return for the Incomplete stuff. My cron is very simple, so here is the text, rather than an attachment. Thanks again for looking. # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.341 installed on Fri Oct 24 12:57:58 2003) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $) */1 * * * * /home/buckg/monsql -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/