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From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
Subject: Re: cron does not work: no error message
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Saurabh Tendulkar" <>
To: <cygwin>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:26 PM
Subject: cron does not work: no error message


| Hi,
| 
| I upgraded my cygwin recently to the latest cron (4.1-6), and it seems to have
| stopped working. I did a cygrunsrv -E cron when the setup asked me to kill
| cron, and cygrunsrv -S cron to start it after the upgrade finished.
| 
| Now the application log shows that /usr/sbin/cron actually runs, but instead of
| running the command from the crontab, it simply does a tabs reload. The
| following are relevant lines from cygbug.txt, the first one shows an instance
| of the old cron, the second one an instance of the new one.
| 2008/01/10 00:21:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 1412: (HP_Owner) CMD (ls)
| ...
| 2008/01/10 20:50:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 3104: (HP_Owner) RELOAD
| (tabs/HP_Owner)
| 
| The only thing that jumped out at me was that /var/cron/cron.log and
| /var/run/cron.pid have user SYSTEM and group root, and afaict these are the
| only files in the cygwin space with that user+group pair. Is this right? Also
| the cron.log file is empty.

Did you run the new /usr/bin/cron-config  ? It will check that various settings are
set correctly. If the problem persists, send me cygbug.txt.

Pierre


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