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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:03:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Saurabh Tendulkar <gillette206 AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: cron does not work: no error message
To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Pierre,
Thanks for the reply. It seems to be working now, although I didnt do anything.
Very strange. The cron.log file is still empty though. cron-config says no
problem found.

saurabh

--- "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org> wrote:

> 
> ----- 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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