Re: [Cronw-devel] cron service starts, but does not run my edited crontab.txt file

[Felix S. <fe...@sc...>]

Geraldine Zephirin schrieb:
> what additional steps are needed?
> 
> here's my log (and I can see that perl.exe is running
> in my task window processes):
> 
> [2007/01/11 12:23:27] starting service
> [2007/01/11 12:23:27] cron service started

If you wait a bit longer, what does your log telling you?
Did you increase the logging level?


 > I edited the crontab file to just this one line, saved
 > it in the same spot, and waited...
 >
 > */2 * * * * C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe C:\Documents and
 > Settings\Me\My Documents\create_ftp_output.plx
 >
 > above perl script runs fine when I call it directly,
 > so it's not problem.

I think it may be a permission problem. Is the LOCAL SYSTEM user to access your 
home directory and all the directories to create_ftp_output.plx? I think most of 
the times this is not the case.

You may try to run cronw under a different user account but using your (probably 
Administrator) account seems to be a bad idea from a security point of view but 
may help with your problem. Please note that you have to grant some additional 
rights to your user in order to run a service under your account (plain 
Administrator is not enough).

fs