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

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Larry Hall wrote:

> 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.

Try "cygcheck -cv cron".
	Igor
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