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Re: Trying to get cron working
- To: James Nallen <James dot Nallen at may dot ie>
- Subject: Re: Trying to get cron working
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 18:30:20 +0200
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- Reply-to: gp at familiehaase dot de
James Nallen schrieb am 2001-08-24, 18:05:
>Hi,
>
>I just recently installed version 2.78.2.3 of cygwin.
cygwin-1.3.2, setup-2.78.2.3
>I'm trying to get the cron facility operatoional.
>
>I have done the following :
>
>(1) Set the cron facility as an NT/W2K service
>
>cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a '-D' -e CYGWIN="tty ntsec"
Correct.
>(2) I started the service:
>
>cygrunsrv -S cron
Yes.
>(3) I set up an Adminstrator crontab file
Did you run:
$ crontab -e
?
>However, the job does not run.
Are you sure?
>The following errors appear in the Event Log:
>
>Event Type: Information
>Event Source: /usr/sbin/cron
>Event Category: None
>Event ID: 0
>Date: 24/08/2001
>Time: 17:55:59
>User: N/A
>Computer:
>Description:
>The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/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: /usr/sbin/cron : Win32 Process
>Id = 0x19C : Cygwin Process Id = 0x2E8 : (Administrator) RELOAD
>(tabs/Administrator).
Here it reloads the tab file.
No error.
>Event Type: Information
>Event Source: Cygwin
>Event Category: None
>Event ID: 0
>Date: 24/08/2001
>Time: 17:56:02
>User: N/A
>Computer:
>Description:
>The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Cygwin ) 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: (Administrator) CMD
>(/home/Administrator/test.out).
Here it writes the file: test.out in Administrator's home dir, no error.
It works for me™, (i did it like you did).
Gerrit
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