X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <46FDAD1F.3C28539E@dessent.net> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:40:47 -0700 From: Brian Dessent X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cron not running jobs, no errors References: <12950946 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Alexfed wrote: > cron service with no errors. I ssued the following commands to install and > run cron. > cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D > cygrunsrv -S cron Why? That is not how you install the cron service. There is much more to be done, in fact there is a cron-config script provided (that is nearly 900 lines of shell code) to do all the various tasks. Specifically, on windows 2003 you must create a special service account and give it extra privileges as the SYSTEM account cannot change uids. So erase this broken service and run cron-config instead. If that still fails then run cron_diagnose.sh and attach its results. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/