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Re: Trouble starting cron (solved)
At 01:21 PM 7/2/2004, you wrote:
>Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Will Parsons wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to get cron working and am having difficulties. I installed
>>> the following minimal crontab:
>>>
>>> $ crontab -l
>>> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
>>> # (crontab.wbp installed on Tue Jun 29 07:47:31 2004)
>>> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $)
>>> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/date.log
>>>
>>> And installed cron using:
>>>
>>> $ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
>>>
>>> Trying to start:
>>>
>>> $ cygrunsrv -S cron
>>> /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062:
>>> The service has not been started.
>>>
>>> /var/log/cron shows:
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> This should be /var/log/cron.log, right?
>
>Right.
>
>>
>>> [569] cron started
>>
>> A couple of other things to try -- look in the Windows Event log, and run
>> the cron_diagnose.sh script (search the archives). FWIW, your mounts look
>> fine, so I'd suspect a permission problem of some sort.
>> Igor
>
>The Event log showed nothing, but running the script resulted in:
>
> cron_diagnose.sh 1.2
>
> Your computer does not appear to have a /etc/cron.d directory.
> Please investigate this problem, and run this script again.
>
>Sure enough, after creating the directory cron now works. Neat script.
>Thanks! (Shouldn't the installation have created the directory, though?)
Yes. The postinstall script will do it if it can (and if it runs).
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