On 09/12/2023 21:55, Adam Dinwoodie via Cygwin wrote:
Hi,
I've been trying to set up Cygwin cron to work as a service on my work
PC. I'm able to get it working just fine on a Windows system where I'm
using a personal Microsoft account, but when I attempt the same process
using on a Windows system using my work account, I get the following
error:
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: StartService: Win32 error 1068:
The dependency service or group failed to start.
I also note that in the failing scenario, I see the following log appear
at this time in Windows Event Viewer:
This computer is configured as a member of a workgroup, not as a
member of a domain. The Netlogon service does not need to run in this
configuration.
I've reproduced this behaviour in virtual machines using fresh
installations of Windows, and where the only actions taken were to
bootstrap, log in, install Cygwin including cygrunsrv and cron, then
attempt to set up cron as a service. I've attached copies of the MinTTY
output and the cronbug.txt files (which appear to include the normal
cygcheck -srv output, so I've not added those separately. I've also
attached the full Event Viewer log
My guess is that something about how Windows manages user accounts has
changed over the years, and cygrunsrv hasn't been updated to cope, but
that's a very wild guess. Searching the archives hasn't got me very
You might test this hypothesis by attempting to run 'true', or perhaps
it needs to be something that runs forever like 'sleep infinity' and see
if you get the same error about netlogon?
(Or are you able to run other cygwin services without problems?)
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