Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?) - Will -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
