[Cronw-devel] Service will not start

[Drew S. <dre...@dq...>]

Greetings,

I am trying to get cronw going on a Windows 2003 Server with ActiveState
Perl v5.8.8.
The installation went smoothly.

When I try to start, it errors off:

    >Net start CRON

    The service is not responding to the control function.

    More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2186.

    >

The cronService.pl seems to be OK:

    >perl cronService.pl

    >


Trying to start it through the Services GUI I get:

    Could not start the Cron Service(CRONw) service on Local Computer.
    Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start 
        or control request in a timely fashion.



I don't think it is a permissions problem; I tried running it as
Administrator with the same results.

The log file is not being written to.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Drew.