Can't start cron as a service, I'm getting the Win32 error 1062 message

[Jerome Fong]

Hi there,

I'm not having any luck starting up cron as a service?  I installed 
cygwin as a local user, then I ran mkpasswd with -d since I realized 
that I should have been a domain user instead.  Now, I'm not able start 
cron as a service.   I am using cron_diagnose.sh to config cron as a 
service.  After getting the Win32 error 1062 message, it tells me to 
check the cron.log and cronevents for error messages.  When I check 
cron.log, I'm only getting the following message:

cron: unknown option -- n
usage:  /usr/sbin/cron [-D] [-x debugflag[,...]]

checking cronevents the last message is:
2007/11/07 12:07:04 [SYSTEM] cron: PID 2712: `cron' service stopped, 
exit status: 1

It seems to work if cron is no configured as a service.   I'm not sure 
what or where I should be looking.  any suggestions would be greatly 
appreciated since I've been working on this for over a week without 
success.

thanks,

Jerome


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