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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:38:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Cron problem on Windows 2003
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On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 02:11:47PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Ballarin Federico, PD wrote:
> >
> > > We have cygwin ver. 1.5.12
> > > We try to install cygwin cron on Win 2003 with "cygrunsrv -I cron -p
> > > /usr/sbin/cron -a -D" string. We started service with "cygrunsrv -S
> > > cron". Service start all successfully.
> > > Our scripts don't start.
> > >
> > > When we try to install the cron service by user Administrator from bash,
> > > the administrato's scripts start.
> >
> > Not the most obvious place to look for this, but read
> > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README, where it says "Important note for
> > Windows 2003 Server users".
>
> There is also
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2005-01/msg00004.html
> announcing the availability of /usr/bin/cron-config

Right.  I'm wondering whether the above section from the openssh.README
should be copied to /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README?  The cron.README
could also use some more info about what the cron-config script, similar
to that in the openssh.README.
	Igor
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