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Re: cron 1003.2 - W2k Professionl - not starting
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: cron 1003.2 - W2k Professionl - not starting
- From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:09:29 +0200
- References: <1ynnbypv.fsf@blue.sea.net>
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:44:10AM +0300, Jari Aalto+tpu.misc wrote:
>
>
> I have trouble installing and starting cron with w2k Professional. I'm
> always logged in as Administrator at this home pc.
>
> I did:
>
> cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
> cygrunsrv -S cron
>
> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062:
> The service has not been started.
Did you look into the event log? There might be an error output from cron.
Are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files ok?
> Same error from the w2k "service" panel, cron didn't start. Next I ran
>
> strace cron --help 2>&1 cron.strace
>
> Which gave error
>
> seteuid: Invalid argument
Sure. cron needs privileges only given to SYSTEM by default.
Corinna
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