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On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 01:26:31PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>For a few months with my own CVS cygwin1.dll builds, as well now with
>the last few snapshots, I can't get cron to start:
>
>$ net start cron
>The service is not responding to the control function.
>
>More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2186.
>
>Reverting to 1.7.0-50 cygwin1.dll fixes this problem.  I don't think it
>was a very recent CVS change since I had this problem with my CVS builds
>before 1.7.0-50, but the issue was not present in the release.  I guess it
>must be something in common with my, and the snapshot, build process that
>is different from the release process?
>
>Cron is installed as a service under the cyg_server user.  Reinstalling
>the service does not change the behavior.  Any ideas on how to debug this?

WJFFM.

Does cron_diagnose.sh offer any clues?

cgf

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