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Re: Cron does not start - Hangs "Starting"


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Arun Biyani wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to get cron to work reliably on my pc (runs Windows XP).
When I type
     cygrunsrv -S cron
I get an error message that the service did not respond in a timely
fashion. Looking under services from Control Panel, cron status is
listed as "Starting".
I cannot stop it by using cygrunsrv either.


Known problem, see <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-11/msg00382.html>.

cron was installed using cron-config.
Output of cygcheck -srv is enclosed. /var/log/cron.log has no messages.


There may be messages in the Windows Event Log that could provide a clue
as to what went wrong.
HTH,
    Igor

Apparently, not all mirrors (mirrors.kernel.org) have this update. I used another to get the
new cygrunsrv. That solved the problem.


Thx
Arun



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