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Re: Cron Problems
- From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin at exposure dot org dot uk>
- To: "cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>,"Wu Yongwei" <adah at netstd dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 03:43:34 -0000
- Subject: Re: Cron Problems
- References: <3E2F595B.7050606@netstd.com>
> 2) How to start cron when starting the computer? I tried running it as
> a service in cygrunsrv (cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron), but failed
> since starting the service always failed (cron : Win32 Process Id =
> 0x3F8 : Cygwin Process Id = 0x3F8 : starting service `cron' failed:
> execv: 0, No error.) but the process cron appeared.
Your problem is that your not passing the -D (Do not kill off parent
process; which allows cron to be used by the service manager) option. So you
need to append `-a -D' to your cygrunsrv line when installing cron.
Regards,
Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@exposure.org.uk
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