Cron does not start - Hangs "Starting"

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Arun Biyani wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to get cron to work reliably on my pc (runs Windows XP).
> When I type
>      cygrunsrv -S cron
> I get an error message that the service did not respond in a timely
> fashion. Looking under services from Control Panel, cron status is
> listed as "Starting".
> I cannot stop it by using cygrunsrv either.

Known problem, see <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-11/msg00382.html>.

> cron was installed using cron-config.
> Output of cygcheck -srv is enclosed. /var/log/cron.log has no messages.

There may be messages in the Windows Event Log that could provide a clue
as to what went wrong.
HTH,
	Igor
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