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Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 19:42:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Hank Statscewich <stats AT ims DOT uaf DOT edu>
cc: "Harig, Mark" <maharig AT idirect DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: CRON problems
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On Thu, 6 May 2004, Hank Statscewich wrote:

> Mark,
>
> Thanks for the sugestion. So, I just ran cron diagnose.sh (ver. 1.5) and
> it tells me that my cron is installed just fine, but even a simple
> "hello world"  doesnt work.  This is pretty wierd because if I do a ps
> -elf cron doesn't show up anywhere, here's the output:
>
>      UID     PID    PPID TTY     STIME COMMAND
>   SYSTEM     640       1   ?  21:55:14 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
>   SYSTEM     672     640   ?  21:55:15 /usr/sbin/sshd
>    stats    1136       1   0  21:55:41 /usr/bin/bash
>    stats    1380    1136   0  23:14:40 /usr/bin/ps
>
> I went throught the suggested steps of remove, uninstall, reinstall and
> starting the service, but I get the same error message as before:
>
> $ cygrunsrv -S cron > error.cron
> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1062:
> The service has not been started.
>
> So I removed /var/run/cron.pid and tried the suggested steps once more, but
> alas, same error.
>
> Am I totally missing something here? In the
> file /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README, it says:
> "On NT/W2K run cron under SYSTEM account as service to use that feature."
>
> Is there a way to run cron under the SYSTEM account, i.e. do I need to
> login as SYSTEM and repeat the steps described above?
>
> Thansk for your help.
> Hank

Hank,

Two places to look for the actual error are /var/log/cron.log and the
Windows event log.  Perhaps Mark can add this to the output of his
script...
	Igor
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