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Re: Cannot Start Cron


On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Buck Turgidson wrote:

> I am trying to start cron on a new installation of Cygwin on NT.  My start
> script looks like this:
>
> cygrunsrv --stop cron
> cygrunsrv --remove cron
> cygrunsrv --install cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
> cygrunsrv --start cron
>
> But I get the following error.  If anyone recognizes it, and has any
> suggestions, I'd be grateful.
>
> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1062:
> The service has not been started.

Look in the Windows "Application" event log for the exact error.
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