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Subject: RE: cron issue
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 16:36:35 -0600
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>Have you tried running the commands recommended by cron_diagnose.sh
>for shutting down/uninstalling/installing/restarting the cron service,
>i.e., the following?

[RD] I believe the problem was in the user accounts I have setup on my
windows box.  I have both a domain account <domain name>\rdavies, and a
machine account <machine name>\rdavies.  I'll spare you the reasons why.
While I had stopped and deleted the service cron with cygrunsrv, I had
never tried to install and start the service using the 2 steps.  When I
tried, the -u rdavies flag actually picked up the machine not domain
user.  And it wouldn't start. 

I deleted the machine user (assigned to group none, and not likely to
get any use anyway) and then reconfigured with cron-configure.  Poof!  I
now have a new line every minute in the goofy log file I was testing
with.  Thanks for your help. 

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