Pierre, Thanks for the reply. It seems to be working now, although I didnt do anything. Very strange. The cron.log file is still empty though. cron-config says no problem found.
saurabh --- "Pierre A. Humblet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Saurabh Tendulkar" <> > To: <cygwin> > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:26 PM > Subject: cron does not work: no error message > > > | Hi, > | > | I upgraded my cygwin recently to the latest cron (4.1-6), and it seems to > have > | stopped working. I did a cygrunsrv -E cron when the setup asked me to kill > | cron, and cygrunsrv -S cron to start it after the upgrade finished. > | > | Now the application log shows that /usr/sbin/cron actually runs, but > instead of > | running the command from the crontab, it simply does a tabs reload. The > | following are relevant lines from cygbug.txt, the first one shows an > instance > | of the old cron, the second one an instance of the new one. > | 2008/01/10 00:21:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 1412: (HP_Owner) CMD (ls) > | ... > | 2008/01/10 20:50:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 3104: (HP_Owner) RELOAD > | (tabs/HP_Owner) > | > | The only thing that jumped out at me was that /var/cron/cron.log and > | /var/run/cron.pid have user SYSTEM and group root, and afaict these are the > | only files in the cygwin space with that user+group pair. Is this right? > Also > | the cron.log file is empty. > > Did you run the new /usr/bin/cron-config ? It will check that various > settings are > set correctly. If the problem persists, send me cygbug.txt. > > Pierre > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/