Yes, that's unusual. I think I'll leave out a check for this problem at this time. I wonder if anyone knows of a general purpose tool for checking the validity or sanity of the /etc/group and /etc/passwd files?
Have you tried adding 'SYSTEM' to group 544 via the /etc/group file? > -----Original Message----- > From: House, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 11:25 AM > To: Harig, Mark A.; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: cron - Error starting a service: > QueryServiceStatus: Win32 > error 1062: > > > Mark, > > Thanks for responding to this. > > I found the problem. Apparently, I had tried to add the > SYSTEM account to a second group. So, that in my /etc/passwd > file it looked like SYSTEM:*:18:18,544:,S-1-5-18::/bin/bash > > This caused the problem. I went and removed that ,544 and my > cron service has started up. > > Perhaps adding a check on the proper SYSTEM account in > /etc/passwd to cron_diagnose.sh may be appropriate. Although, > I'm not too sure that anyone else will do anything quite this strange. > > Thanks, > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Harig, Mark A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 6:48 PM > To: House, Mark; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: cron - Error starting a service: > QueryServiceStatus: Win32 > error 1062: > > > I can't see any glaring errors. Here a some things you might try: > > 1. You're running Windows 2000, SP2. Is there any reason you haven't > installed SP3? > I doubt that this has any effect, but it might be worth trying. > > 2. You have Windows 2000 installed on your 'c:' drive, but Cygwin is > installed > on your 'd:' drive. You might try installing a minimal Cygwin on > your 'c:' > drive, and retrying cron. Have you been running Cygwin > on 'd:' all > along? > > If you find a fix that you think could be detected by the > cron_diagnose.sh > script, please let me know so that it can improve. > > -----Original Message----- > From: House, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 10:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: cron - Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 > error 1062: > > > > Hi, > > I have been experiencing this error ever since I rebooted > my server. I > am now unable to start the cron service. I have attached my cygcheck > file and I have run cron_diagnose.sh as suggested by Mark A. Harig on > his posting on 20-Dec-2002. > > In addition, I have uninstalled and reinstalled the cron > service and I > have reinstalled the cron and cygrunsrv components. > > I am using Win2000 Server. My Event Log displays the > following error. > The following information is part of the event: cron : Win32 > Process Id = 0x9A0 : Cygwin Process Id = 0x9A0 : starting > service `cron' > failed: execv: 1, Operation not permitted. > > I would appreciate any suggestions that you can offer. > > Thanks, > Mark > > <<cygcheck.txt>> > > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
