cron fails to run as a service

Tue Mar 2 13:38:00 GMT 2010

At 02:13 AM 3/2/2010, Paul McFerrin wrote:
>I've been using "cron" for more that a few weeks without any 
>problems, until my needs changed. I installed cron as a service 
>using "cygrunsrv". I keep getting errors about creating 
>lockfile. I removed the lockfile but it got created again. At 
>first, I got the Win32 error and ran the cron_diagnose.sh script and 
>got it further along but still nogo. Attached is a copy of 
>"cronbug.txt" as instructed. It is trying to start cron, but cron 
>fails to start as a service. It run perfectly when not a service/
>>One difference: the service control manager added a "-n" option to 
>my cron command that I did not specify. How can I turn off this feature??

Paul,
The -n switch keeps cron in the foreground. This is advisable when 
cron runs under cygrunsrv.
Some of your problems are due to launching a new cron daemon while an 
old one is still running.
If you experiment with cron, you can view the cron log by using "cronevents"
2010年03月01日 01:38:45 [Paul] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 368: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0)
2010年03月01日 01:47:26 [Paul] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 2508: (CRON) DEATH 
(can't lock /var/run/cron.pid, otherpid may be 368: Resource 
temporarily unavailable)
I will think about your SIGHUP request when I have more time.
How do other Cygwin services handle this?
Pierre
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