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Re: Cron Problems
- From: Wu Yongwei <adah at netstd dot com>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:47:29 +0800
- Subject: Re: Cron Problems
- Organization: Kingnet Security, Inc.
Thanks. However, where can I find the options of cron? Now I only find
some info in /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README, but only in the ChangeLog
section, which I ignored on the first reading!
And what is the use of the option -a?
Best regards,
Wu Yongwei
--- Original Message from Elfyn McBratney ---
> 2) How to start cron when starting the computer? I tried running it
> as a service in cygrunsrv (cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron), but
> failed since starting the service always failed (cron : Win32 Process
> Id = 0x3F8 : Cygwin Process Id = 0x3F8 : starting service `cron'
> failed: execv: 0, No error.) but the process cron appeared.
Your problem is that your not passing the -D (Do not kill off parent
process; which allows cron to be used by the service manager) option. So
you need to append `-a -D' to your cygrunsrv line when installing cron.
Regards,
Elfyn McBratney
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