Re: Cannot Start Cron

2003-10-24 Thread Buck Turgidson
Please check your C:\WINNT40 for other utilities, such as 'cron.exe'. Consider deleting these programs, or moving them to another directory in your PATH. 3. Please examine your /var/log/cron.log to see if it provides any useful messages. 4. Please provide a copy of your crontab: $ crontab -

RE: Cannot Start Cron

2003-10-24 Thread Harig, Mark
1. From your cygcheck.txt: >... > Found: C:\WINNT40\grep.exe > Found: d:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe > Warning: C:\WINNT40\grep.exe hides d:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe >... Please check your C:\WINNT40 for other utilities, such as 'cron.exe'. Consider deleting these programs, or moving them to another dire

Re: Cannot Start Cron

2003-10-24 Thread Buck Turgidson
"Harig, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is a new version of the cron diagnostic script. It contains another test suggested and provided by Pierre Humblet. The new test checks to see if there is a password entry that corresponds to the values in the environm

RE: Cannot Start Cron

2003-10-23 Thread Harig, Mark
Here is a new version of the cron diagnostic script. It contains another test suggested and provided by Pierre Humblet. The new test checks to see if there is a password entry that corresponds to the values in the environment variables $USERNAME and $USERDOMAIN cron_diagnose.sh Description: cr

RE: Cannot Start Cron

2003-10-23 Thread Harig, Mark
> > If none of this fixes the problem, then report your problem > > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please include a copy of your crontab, > > ('crontab -l') and the output of 'cygcheck -srv > cygcheck.txt'. > > > > PLEASE include the generated files 'cygcheck.txt' *as an > attachment*, > > and NOT in the b

Re: Cannot Start Cron

2003-10-23 Thread Buck Turgidson
"Harig, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If none of this fixes the problem, then report your problem > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please include a copy of your crontab, > ('crontab -l') and the output of 'cygcheck -srv > cygcheck.txt'. > > PLEASE include the generate

RE: Cannot Start Cron

2003-10-23 Thread Harig, Mark
> > If none of this fixes the problem, then report your problem > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please include a copy of your crontab, > ('crontab -l') and the output of 'cygcheck -srv > cygcheck.txt'. > > PLEASE include the generated files 'cygcheck.txt' *as an attachment*, > and NOT in the body of the

Re: Cannot Start Cron

2003-10-23 Thread Buck Turgidson
"Harig, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please run the attached diagnostic script. It will attempt to determine whether there are any problems with the various files needed by cron. It does NOT modify any files (which you can verify for yourself by reading the sc

RE: Cannot Start Cron

2003-10-23 Thread Harig, Mark
gidson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Cannot Start Cron > > > > > > Look in the Windows "Application" event log for the exact error. > > Igor > > -- > > > The d

Re: Cannot Start Cron

2003-10-23 Thread Buck Turgidson
> > Look in the Windows "Application" event log for the exact error. > Igor > -- The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( cron ) could not be found. It contains the following insertion string(s): cron : PID 495 : `cron' service stopped. Thanks, Igor. Any clues here? Permissions on /va

Re: Cannot Start Cron

2003-10-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Buck Turgidson wrote: > I am trying to start cron on a new installation of Cygwin on NT. My start > script looks like this: > > cygrunsrv --stop cron > cygrunsrv --remove cron > cygrunsrv --install cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D > cygrunsrv --start cron > > But I get the follow

Cannot Start Cron

2003-10-23 Thread Buck Turgidson
I am trying to start cron on a new installation of Cygwin on NT. My start script looks like this: cygrunsrv --stop cron cygrunsrv --remove cron cygrunsrv --install cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D cygrunsrv --start cron But I get the following error. If anyone recognizes it, and has any suggestions

Cannot start cron

2003-03-09 Thread a12
Hi gurus, After installing cron, I did 'ps -ef' and found that cron was not started. So I checked /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README, and I tried to start the Windows service using: cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D Then I checked Windows processes, and no cron.exe was there, so I tried to start