Re: 1.5.3 - can't start cron nor apache service - operation not permitted

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com>]

At 11:25 AM 9/12/2003, Andrew DeFaria you wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>>On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 04:12:43PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>
>>>Since upgrading to 1.5.3 I cannot start cron or apache as services. They
>>>were added as follows:
>>>[...]
>>>cron : PID 3856 : starting service `cron' failed: execv: 1, Operation
>>>not permitted
>>>[...]
>>
>>I've just tested it and it still works for me. Could you check the permissions on cygwin1.dll? Is system not permitted to read/executethe DLL perhaps? 
>
>Interesting:
>
>$ ll /bin/cygwin1.dll
>-rwxr-x---+   1 Andrew   Users      967522 Sep  1 10:16 /bin/cygwin1.dll*
>$ chmod +x /bin/cygwin1.dll
>$ ll /bin/cygwin1.dll
>-rwxr-x--x+   1 Andrew   Users      967522 Sep  1 10:16 /bin/cygwin1.dll*
>$ net start cron
>The Cygwin cron service is starting.
>The Cygwin cron service could not be started.
>
>The service did not report an error.
>
>More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3534.
>
>Didn't help. Wonder why many of the files under /bin were owned by the group Users and others set to the group DeFaria? 


My WAG is you've run setup.exe more than once to install something and
your ID had different group permissions on some of these rounds.


>And what does that "+" at the end of the permmissions string mean?


Do you google?

<http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg00097.html>


>Anyways I did a:
>
>$ chmod 755 /bin/*
>$ chgrp DeFaria /bin/*
>
>Didn't help.
>
>I did get the following one time:
>
>Event Type:    Information
>Event Source:    /usr/sbin/cron
>Event Category:    None
>Event ID:    0
>Date:        9/12/2003
>Time:        7:52:46 AM
>User:        NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
>Computer:    STARBASE
>Description:
>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. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: /usr/sbin/cron : PID 4036 : (CRON) STAT FAILED (/etc/cron.d).
>
>Interesting because I don't have an /etc/cron.d. Creating it fixed my problem! Hmmm... Why didn't the post install create this? I have no idea. But I'm glad it's now working.


The post install doesn't need to create it.  It's part of the cron package.
<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=cron/cron-3.0.1-10&grep=cron.d>

Looks like you had a problem installing the 'cron' package for some reason.
Try again, if required.


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