X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Jerome Fong Subject: Can't start cron as a service, I'm getting the Win32 error 1062 message Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:59:38 -0800 Lines: 25 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Hi there, I'm not having any luck starting up cron as a service? I installed cygwin as a local user, then I ran mkpasswd with -d since I realized that I should have been a domain user instead. Now, I'm not able start cron as a service. I am using cron_diagnose.sh to config cron as a service. After getting the Win32 error 1062 message, it tells me to check the cron.log and cronevents for error messages. When I check cron.log, I'm only getting the following message: cron: unknown option -- n usage: /usr/sbin/cron [-D] [-x debugflag[,...]] checking cronevents the last message is: 2007/11/07 12:07:04 [SYSTEM] cron: PID 2712: `cron' service stopped, exit status: 1 It seems to work if cron is no configured as a service. I'm not sure what or where I should be looking. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated since I've been working on this for over a week without success. thanks, Jerome -- 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/