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 Message-ID: <416CE345.FDDFC2BE@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:11:49 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'Cygwin List'" Subject: Re: Cron doesn't work References: <000001c4b0fa$6a8ca010$ea0aa8c0@edisoft.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Marcos Rebelo wrote: > $ cygrunsrv --start cron > cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error > 1062: > The service has not been started. > > Just the last one seems to be incorrect This is your problem. However, that is not the actual error. It's just telling you that the service couldn't start. The real error message will be in /var/log/cron.log and/or the Windows event log. Brian -- 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/