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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:25:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Siegfried Heintze <siegfried AT heintze DOT com>
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Subject: RE: cron issue: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source (  /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be found
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Siegfried Heintze wrote:

> I'm having similar troubles. I have read the cron.README file. I installed
> cron some time ago. I believe I used the command described in cron.README. I
> see there are several cron.exes running on my system when I look at the
> process list. Should there be?

Depends.  Every time cron forks, you'll see an instance of the executable.
Whether cron forks or not depends on your config, IIRC.

> Here is one of the many entries in the event viewer.
>
> I need some help interpreting this:

Okay.

> The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/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. You may be
> able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and
> Support for details. The following information is part of the event:

Ignore the above.  It's Windows telling you that it can't find the
template to nicely format the event content, so it'll give you the raw
event data.

> /usr/sbin/cron : PID 1836 : (Siegfried) CMD (/c/Perl/bin/perl
> /c/WinOOP/Perl/bots/yahoo/finance/crawl-hot-jobs.pl /GUI=NONE /sleep=60
> /threads=8 >`date +").

Aha, this is the important one.  It's cron telling you the exact command
it tried to run.

> Any suggestions on how to resolve this?

Looks like your cron job command isn't
parsed correctly -- the name of the file to redirect the output to doesn't
look right.  Also, I'm assuming /c/Perl contains ActiveState perl, not
Cygwin's one.  If so, passing it a Cygwin path to the script won't work.

If it still doesn't work after you fix both of the problems above, please
post your crontab.

HTH,
	Igor
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