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Re: cron problem in event log
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: cron problem in event log
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 23:00:22 +0200
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- Reply-to: gp at familiehaase dot de
Amy Ho schrieb am 2001-08-03, 13:51:
>Hi cygwin guru:
I'm no guru:-)
>I installed cron 3.0.1-4 the latest version on window 2000.
>From the event log viewer: I have the following error message:
>
>The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /USR/SBIN/CRON ) cannot be
>found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or
> message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following
>information is part of the event: /USR/SBIN/CRON : Win32 Process Id = 0x8
>F0 : Cygwin Process Id = 0x8F0 : (Administrator) CMD (echo
>`date`>>/tmp/cron.out).
>Any idea how to fix this?
I think you're missing sh-utils package.
$ which date
/bin/date
$ date --version
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
Written by David MacKenzie.
Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>I have tried to do
>
>mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd
>mkgroup -l >/etc/group
>
>and restart the cron, but it doesn't help.
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