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Cron (Windows or Posix) doesn't work!

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Terry

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May 4, 2004, 7:50:19 PM5/4/04
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I am having extreme difficulties running Cron in the
windows or the posix shell using SFU 3.0

In Windows I run crontab -e and set up a simple job ie:
* * * * * ksh -c date > /dev/fs/C/SFU/date.log
I do a crontab -l and it appears to be ok, but it never
does anything!

In the posix shell, I set up the same job, the cron.log
updates with the edits and lists etc, but once again it
does NOTHING!

The help documentation is ambiguous as it seems to use the
syntax for the posix crontab for the windows crontab?

Any help to just simply get the basic job(above) working
would be greatly appreciated.


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Sudhakar J [Msft]

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May 4, 2004, 9:38:48 PM5/4/04
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Hi,
After adding entries using crontab -e

do "ps -AXunix" and note the pid of cron
and do a "kill -HUP pidofcron"

Also check the man page for "man crontab" for condition on cron.allow and
cron.deny entries.


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Terry

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May 5, 2004, 12:25:59 AM5/5/04
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Ther is no Cron pid when I do a ps -AXunix in the posix
... however when running the cron in the windows service I
get the following error in the Event Viewer:

Cron Service: CreateProcessAsUser() failed with
error '1314'

?? any ideas ? I've given the user every right I can and
it still gets this error !!!


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Mark Funkenhauser

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May 5, 2004, 1:30:05 AM5/5/04
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FYI:
This discussion is being dealt with at http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/forum/tm.asp?m=2053&mpage=1&key=&#2056

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Terry

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May 10, 2004, 6:16:49 PM5/10/04
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Windows Services for Unix DOES NOT WORK on Windows NT
4.0 ....period!!!

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Mark Funkenhauser

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May 11, 2004, 8:48:51 AM5/11/04
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> Windows Services for Unix DOES NOT WORK on Windows NT
> 4.0 ....period!!!
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Well, at least the Windows cron service doesn't work. (I can't get it to work either).

Other components seems to work.
Interix works. And the Interix cron daemon works.

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