Re: cron problem in event log

["Amy" <amy dot ho at theradoc dot com>]

Thanks to reply:

I checked my cygwin, everthing is up to date. Any other comments to fix the
cron problem?

Thank you again.

[Administrator@AHO /home/amy]$ which date
/bin/date

[Administrator@AHO /home/amy]$ date --version
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
Written by David MacKenzie.

Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

>>I installed cron 3.0.1-4 the latest version on window 2000.
>>From the event log viewer: I have the following error message:
>>
>>The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /USR/SBIN/CRON ) cannot be
>>found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information
or
>> message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The
following
>>information is part of the event: /USR/SBIN/CRON : Win32 Process Id = 0x8
>>F0 : Cygwin Process Id = 0x8F0 : (Administrator) CMD (echo
>>`date`>>/tmp/cron.out).
>>Any idea how to fix this?
>
>I think you're missing sh-utils package.
>
>$ which date
>/bin/date
>
>$ date --version
>date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
>Written by David MacKenzie.
>
>Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
>warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
>>I have tried to do
>>
>>mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd
>>mkgroup -l >/etc/group
>>
>>and restart the cron, but it doesn't help.
>
>
>--
>=^..^=
>


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