2. 900731 Data Handling for Eye-in-the-Sea on MARS : EITS cron setup This page last changed on Jan 05, 2009 by dcline. This presumes the user erika will be processing jobs and has a valid account on EITS. As the user erika setup the cron daemon. Starting at Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy-> Local Policies -> User Rights Assignment Grant rights to the group Administrators for the following items: Adjust memory quotas for a process Create a token object Log on as service Replace process level token Create a con service for user erika
       cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -u erika
1. You will be prompted for your password. Change this to the same password you use to login to EITS. This cron service should now come up as a service in Windows. Check this by launching services. Starting at Start->Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services, you should see that the service has been entered: Open the permission of the cron.log file for all users. This appears to be a bug in the cygwin version of cron.
        chmod a+rwx /var/log/cron.log
2. Next, start the service with:
       cygrunsrv -S cron
If the service doesn't start, note that only one cron service is allowed to run under cygin so make sure other cron services are not running. Attachments: cron.jpg (image/jpeg)

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