Can't start cron daemon in Cygwin 1.5.23 under WinXP SP2

[Dave Korn]

On 25 January 2007 18:03, Steve Rowley wrote:

>> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:23:19 -0000
>> From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
>> 
>> Seems like you don't have a valid /etc/groups file.  You should fix that
>> first. 
> 
> My /etc/group file was made by:
> 
>   >$ mkgroup -lc >/etc/group
> 
> Here are its current contents; if you can spot anything wrong, I'd be
> pleased to hear it.  Perhaps I suffer from myopia due to staring at
> this all too long:
> 
>   >SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
>   >None:S-1-5-21-473916646-3257906905-3362627345-513:513:
>   >Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544:
>   >Backup Operators:S-1-5-32-551:551:
>   >Guests:S-1-5-32-546:546:
>   >Network Configuration Operators:S-1-5-32-556:556:
>   >Power Users:S-1-5-32-547:547:
>   >Remote Desktop Users:S-1-5-32-555:555:
>   >Replicator:S-1-5-32-552:552:
>   >Users:S-1-5-32-545:545:
>   >Debugger Users:S-1-5-21-473916646-3257906905-3362627345-1004:1004:
>   >HelpServicesGroup:S-1-5-21-473916646-3257906905-3362627345-1001:1001:
>   >mkgroup_l_d:S-1-5-32-545:10545:
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  You are in a domain and you didn't use the -d option, hence the following
output in your cygcheck:

> 10545(mkgroup_l_d)

  This could perhaps lead to cygwin getting confused about permissions.

>>  Got any/and/or/all of: Agnitum outpost firewall, Kerio personal firewall,
>> Logitech web camera, or anything by Norton/Mcaffee/Symantec?
> 
> I have Symantec AntiVirus, but none of the others you mention.
> Symantec AntiVirus I can't mess with, since it's installed in a
> nonmodifiable way by an IT department.

  Does it have any "anti-spyware" or "suspicious behaviour blocking" features?

> However, since you suggested it, I checked the Symantec logs and it
> hasn't fired on anything for several weeks, which is how old this
> computer is.  So it seems unlikely to be Symantec, no?

  Doesn't prove anything; it can easily mess up cygwin without thinking cygwin
is a virus, it's just that the checking mechanisms are so crude and disruptive
they can easily break applications.

> However, see previous reply to Pierre in which it turned out that
> Microsoft's Windows Defender was strangling cygrunsrv.  That was a
> definite problem, but when I uninstalled Windows Defender the
> underlying problem still remained.  Definitely looks to me like
> something is preventing cygrunsrv from forking a process...

  Symantec could /also/ be causing it.  Also, I notice you didn't mention any
firewall at all?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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