Re: Will cron runnnnig as a service cause the server to lock up?

2010-08-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/26/2010 12:59 PM, Blaine Miller wrote: I'm running cron as a service. Twice this week this server has died and needed cold rebooting to get the system back. Questions - First, will cron as a service on a Windows 2003 R2, standard system cause this sort of behavior? No, that's an O/S

Re: Will cron runnnnig as a service cause the server to lock up?

2010-08-26 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: Blaine Miller To: cygwin Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 12:59 | I'm running cron as a service. Twice this week this server has died and | needed cold rebooting to get the system back. | | Questions - First, will cron as a service on a Windows 2003 R2,

Re: Will cron runnnnig as a service cause the server to lock up?

2010-08-26 Thread Blaine Miller
Hello, Larry, I'm getting this message in the Event Log for cron kicking off... 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.

Re: Will cron runnnnig as a service cause the server to lock up?

2010-08-26 Thread Blaine Miller
Larry, I'm also getting the following message from the crontab in the Event Log The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( crontab ) 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

Re: Will cron runnnnig as a service cause the server to lock up?

2010-08-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/26/2010 1:37 PM, Blaine Miller wrote: Hello, Larry, I'm getting this message in the Event Log for cron kicking off... 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

Re: Will cron runnnnig as a service cause the server to lock up?

2010-08-26 Thread Blaine Miller
Larry, Thanks, that's what I figured. Thanks for your continued assistance... Blaine Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/26/2010 1:37 PM, Blaine Miller wrote: Hello, Larry, I'm getting this message in the Event Log for cron kicking off... The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source (