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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:33:11 -0500
From: Steve Rowley <sgr AT alum DOT mit DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Can't start cron daemon in Cygwin 1.5.23 under WinXP SP2
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Thanks for the suggestions so far.

However, after trying all the suggestions, I'm still unable to launch
cron.  Is there anything further to try before looking for
alternatives to cron?

>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:05:01 -0500
>From: Steve Rowley <sgr AT alum DOT mit DOT edu>
>
>>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:55:35 +0000
>>From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest AT gmail DOT com>
>>
>>mkgroup_l_d:S-1-5-32-545:10545:
>>
>>A Google search for
>>GID 10545
>>implies that this is 'Domain Users'.
>>
>>Not that it should make a big difference, but you might want to edit
>>your /etc/group and change
>>mkgroup_l_d:S-1-5-32-545:10545:
>>to
>>Domain Users:S-1-5-32-545:10545:
>>or however you prefer
>>dusers:S-1-5-32-545:10545:
>>domain_users:S-1-5-32-545:10545:
>>
>>Just something other than mkgroup_l_d
>
>Ok.  I'd previously tried just taking that line out of /etc/group
>altogether.  Now I'll add it back in, as you suggested:
>
>  >$ cat /etc/group
>  >SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
>  >None:S-1-5-21-473916646-3257906905-3362627345-513:513:
>  >Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544:
>  >Backup Operators:S-1-5-32-551:551:
>  >Guests:S-1-5-32-546:546:
>  >Network Configuration Operators:S-1-5-32-556:556:
>  >Power Users:S-1-5-32-547:547:
>  >Remote Desktop Users:S-1-5-32-555:555:
>  >Replicator:S-1-5-32-552:552:
>  >Users:S-1-5-32-545:545:
>  >Debugger Users:S-1-5-21-473916646-3257906905-3362627345-1004:1004:
>  >HelpServicesGroup:S-1-5-21-473916646-3257906905-3362627345-1001:1001:
>  >Domain Users:S-1-5-32-545:10545:
>
>But cron-config still stalls out in the same place.

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