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so cron is working now in it? I will definitely try it out again. also... why do you mean by "running"? it's basically a vm so as long as i have a command promp

so cron is working now in it? I will definitely try it out again. also... why do you mean by "running"? it's basically a vm so as long as i have a command prompt open, it should be running, correct? it would be cool if there was a way of keep it up and running like a regular vm.

dleslie 7y ago
When you close the shell it sort of sleeps; there seems to be some hooks to allow it to wake on request, for ssh, but for the most part the system sleeps and won't wake until a shell is opened. I get around this by having an X app always running, and its behaviour is sufficient to prevent WSL from sleeping. Some folks I know just leave the shell open, but having an xfce panel is desirable to me.
- pkulak 7y ago
  If you used systemd instead of cron it would at least run as soon as it came back, if it was out when it should have run. That's usually sufficient for backups and such.
  - dleslie 7y ago
    But then I'd have to run systemd. WSL's Ubuntu by default does not have systemd. #> systemctl System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
- thrownaway954 7y ago
  that is strange that they put it to sleep like that. I wonder what the reason is and if there is an actual supported way to prevent this and use it like a regular VM?
  - dleslie 7y ago
    I suspect it is a bug.