On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 01:26:31PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: > >For a few months with my own CVS cygwin1.dll builds, as well now with > >the last few snapshots, I can't get cron to start: > > > >$ net start cron > >The service is not responding to the control function. > > > >More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2186. > > > >Reverting to 1.7.0-50 cygwin1.dll fixes this problem. > > > >Cron is installed as a service under the cyg_server user.
It was a stupid permissions problem. The cyg_server user didn't have permission to the newly installed CVS or snapshot cygwin1.dll, but the setup installed release had correct permissions. Doh! > WJFFM. Thanks for trying to help! -- Brian Ford Staff Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained crew... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
