Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: wbparsons@nodomain.invalid (Will Parsons) Subject: Re: Trouble starting cron (solved) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 17:21:02 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Westinghouse Electric Compary Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: william.b.parsons@us.westinghouse.com X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.165.62.3 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Win32) Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Will Parsons wrote: > >> I am trying to get cron working and am having difficulties. I installed >> the following minimal crontab: >> >> $ crontab -l >> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. >> # (crontab.wbp installed on Tue Jun 29 07:47:31 2004) >> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $) >> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/date.log >> >> And installed cron using: >> >> $ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D >> >> Trying to start: >> >> $ cygrunsrv -S cron >> /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: >> The service has not been started. >> >> /var/log/cron shows: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > This should be /var/log/cron.log, right? Right. > >> [569] cron started > > A couple of other things to try -- look in the Windows Event log, and run > the cron_diagnose.sh script (search the archives). FWIW, your mounts look > fine, so I'd suspect a permission problem of some sort. > Igor The Event log showed nothing, but running the script resulted in: cron_diagnose.sh 1.2 Your computer does not appear to have a /etc/cron.d directory. Please investigate this problem, and run this script again. Sure enough, after creating the directory cron now works. Neat script. Thanks! (Shouldn't the installation have created the directory, though?) - Will -- 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/