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Re: cron usage...
- From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at Salira dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:00:31 -0800
- Subject: Re: cron usage...
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Do you have C:\Cygwin\Bin in your Windows System Environment Variable
PATH? Have you rebooted since you've put it in your PATH?
Christopher Paulicka wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Sorry to bother you, but I am trying to get cron to
> work on my Windows 2000 machine.
>
> I installed cron as instructed here:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00077.html
>
> which was:
>
> cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
>
> My $(id) was:
>
> uid=500(Administrator) gid=513(None) groups=513(None)
>
> If I now go to services, "cron" is listed as a
> service, but is not running.
>
> When I try to start it, I get an error from the
> Microsoft Management Console:
>
> "Could not start the cron service on Local Computer.
> The service did not return an error. This could be an
> internal Windows error or an internal service error.
> If the problem persists, contact your system
> administrator."
>
> Do you have any suggestions for how to get cron
> working? I would really appreciate it.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Christopher Paulicka
> christopher_paulicka@hp.com
>
>
>
>
>
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