I'd been trying to get cron running for a day or three. Came accross someone who had the EXACT same problem as me:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg00624.html But found no solution. Now I have solved it, so here is my solution: /var/run was set to be owned by my user. Not the SYSTEM user. Which meant that cron service was unable to write the cron.pid file into that folder. A swift chmod a+w allowed me to start cron. Hopefuly this will help someone else! Mike -- 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/
