Re: crontab error

[Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at Salira dot com>]

Chuck Hamilton wrote:

> I'm finding if I run the cron command manually from a shell window, it
> works. If I try to start it as a service, it fails to start. Below is what I
> found in the win2k application log. Does it help?
>
> "The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( 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: cron : PID 2976 : starting service `cron'
> failed: execv: 1, Operation not permitted."
>
> Is this some sort of a permissions problem? Do I need to start the cron
> service as a specific user?
You might try stopping cron and doing:

$ rm -rf /var/cron
$  rm -rf /var/run/cron.pid
$  rm -rf /var/log/cron.log

Then restarting cron.



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