I am not sure what else you want based on reporting guidelines. I attached the cygcheck file though.
As for what I am trying to do: We have a bunch of old Unix scripts and software that we need to keep running for awhile. These need to run every x minutes for y range of hours during the day. The scripts and software produce the results we are looking when run from the command line in Cygwin. There is nothing but "Cron Started [<number>]" in the cron log. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 4:39 PM To: CWS Informatics [Sas] Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cron Problems with Cygwin CWS Informatics [Sas] wrote: > I am having trouble getting the cron to run properly under Windows > 2000 and XP with cygwin. > > I have searched through several threads on the mailing list, including > these most relevant ones: The solutions did not overly work, although > they did help me progress a little bit. > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg01123.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg29278.html > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01855.html > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg00803.html > > The service appears to install and start with no problems. The crontab > files are correct and the cron service is running my tasks as I had > set them. For example, I have a task set to run eveyr 5 minutes, and I > see an event in the event viewer every 5 minutes saying "CMD > (/home/test/test)" as part of it; this is indeed the what I was trying > to run every 5 minutes (just a test). However, nothing happens. The > command is supposed to be a script that does a bunch of other stuff > (for testing it simply append echoes the time to a file), but it never > happens. If I run the script just from the command line it works fine. > > The events are running as SYSTEM at least the event viewer shows them > as SYSTEM. All associated cron files are owned by system. > I have tried changing the permissions and modes of some of the files as > mentioned in the above threads - no difference. > > The full text of the event log entry for the task being run is: 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. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this > description; see Help and Support for details. The following > information is part of the event: /usr/sbin/cron : PID 3816 : (scoop) > CMD (/home/test/test). > > I would appreciate any insight into what may or may not be working. Please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines found at: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Configuration information and details of what you're doing would also be helpful. You may find more info in '/var/log/cron'. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746
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