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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:40:13 -0800
From: Arun Biyani <abiyani AT unix DOT telasic DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cron does not start - Hangs "Starting"
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Arun Biyani wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to get cron to work reliably on my pc (runs Windows XP).
>> When I type
>>      cygrunsrv -S cron
>> I get an error message that the service did not respond in a timely
>> fashion. Looking under services from Control Panel, cron status is
>> listed as "Starting".
>> I cannot stop it by using cygrunsrv either.
>
>
> Known problem, see <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-11/msg00382.html>.
>
>> cron was installed using cron-config.
>> Output of cygcheck -srv is enclosed. /var/log/cron.log has no messages.
>
>
> There may be messages in the Windows Event Log that could provide a clue
> as to what went wrong.
> HTH,
>     Igor

Apparently, not all mirrors (mirrors.kernel.org) have this update. I 
used another to get the
new cygrunsrv. That solved the problem.

Thx
Arun



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