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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:11:49 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Cron doesn't work
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Marcos Rebelo wrote:

> $  cygrunsrv --start cron
> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error
> 1062:
> The service has not been started.
> 
> Just the last one seems to be incorrect

This is your problem.  However, that is not the actual error.  It's just
telling you that the service couldn't start.  The real error message
will be in /var/log/cron.log and/or the Windows event log.

Brian

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