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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:07:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Marc Girod <marc DOT girod AT gmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Start a crontab service
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Hello,
I tried to install cron locally on my laptop, and could not find
instructions to proceed.
I found FAQ 41, and failed to start sshd as well.
I have now the two services installed:

~> cygrunsrv --verbose --list
Service             : sshd
Current State       : Stopped
Command             : /usr/sbin/sshd.exe
stdin path          : /dev/null
stdout path         : /var/log/sshd.log
stderr path         : /var/log/sshd.log
Process Type        : Own Process
Startup             : Automatic
Account             : LocalSystem

Service             : crontab
Current State       : Stopped
Command             : /usr/sbin/cron.exe
stdin path          : /dev/null
stdout path         : /var/log/crontab.log
stderr path         : /var/log/crontab.log
Process Type        : Own Process
Startup             : Automatic
Account             : LocalSystem

I created a cyg_server account and added it to /etc/passwd:

cyg_server:unused:1012:513:Cygwin server
account,U-EV0016D4A35054\cyg_server,S-1-5-21-1126040635-2252147014-1092054940-1012:/home/cyg_server:/bin/bash

I wasn't too sure about creating a 'domain policy'...
Is this relevant if I am only concerned with one laptop?
I probably got sshd and httpd to work in a previous version of cygwin...
Not sure anymore.

As I try to start the services (as local admin), I get:

~> cygrunsrv --verbose -S crontab
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1062:
The service has not been started.

~> cygrunsrv --verbose -S sshd
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1062:
The service has not been started.

This is

cron                           4.1-59              OK

cygrunsrv                      1.34-1              OK
cygutils                       1.4.4-1             OK
cygwin                         1.7.8-1             OK

Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Thu Mar 17 22:04:28 2011

Windows Vista Enterprise Ver 6.0 Build 6001 Service Pack 1

    Cygwin DLL version info:
        DLL version: 1.7.8
        DLL epoch: 19
        DLL old termios: 5
        DLL malloc env: 28
        Cygwin conv: 181
        API major: 0
        API minor: 236
        Shared data: 5
        DLL identifier: cygwin1
        Mount registry: 3
        Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
        Program options name: Program Options
        Installations name: Installations
        Cygdrive default prefix: 
        Build date: 
        CVS tag: cygwin-1_7_8-release
        Shared id: cygwin1S5

Thanks,
Marc
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