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RE: problem starting cron as a service
- From: Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>
- To: "'wpmccormick at covad dot net'" <wpmccormick at covad dot net>, Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:08:10 +0100
- Subject: RE: problem starting cron as a service
anything in /var/log/cron.log ?
and are you mounts system or user ?
ie.
$ mount |grep "/ type system"
should give something like
h:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill McCormick [mailto:wpmccormick@covad.net]
> Sent: 21 July 2003 08:25
> To: Cygwin
> Subject: problem starting cron as a service
>
>
> I get this in the win app error log:
>
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: cron
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 0
> Date: 7/21/2003
> Time: 2:14:08 AM
> User: BILLHOME\Administrator
> Computer: BILLHOME
> Description:
> The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( cron ) cannot
> be found. The
> local computer may not have the necessary registry
> information or message
> DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following
> information is part of the event: cron : PID 2276 : starting
> service `cron'
> failed: execv: 0, No error.
>
> While trying to start the service as Administrator (or from
> LocalSytems
> account). I rm'd /var/run/cron.pid and /var/log/cron.log
> before trying to
> start.
>
> Thanks
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