Carlos at Whitewater Foundry was most helpful. Here is his reply to my email:
There is a solution that replaces systemctl by a python script that reads the service files and tries to start the services. We don’t distribute it with Fedora Remix because it has mixed results. For example, it works for cron and ssh but no for databases in general. Even in SSH, you need to do an extra step.
Follow these steps to start cron service in Fedora Remix. Works with WSL1 & WSL2:
how do I start a service(like ssh) if I can't use systemctl in wsl? And how do I install SysVinit?
Hope my reply helpz
I got cron working in Fedora and Ubuntu on WSL.
Carlos at Whitewater Foundry was most helpful. Here is his reply to my email:
There is a solution that replaces systemctl by a python script that reads the service files and tries to start the services. We don’t distribute it with Fedora Remix because it has mixed results. For example, it works for cron and ssh but no for databases in general. Even in SSH, you need to do an extra step.
Follow these steps to start cron service in Fedora Remix. Works with WSL1 & WSL2:
wget raw.githubusercontent.com/gdraheim...
sudo cp /usr/bin/systemctl /usr/bin/systemctl.bak
sudo cp systemctl3.py /usr/bin/systemctl
sudo dnf install cronie cronie-anacron
crontab -e # Edit your crontab
sudo systemctl start crond
Be aware that each time that the package systemd is updated, you need to run the first three lines of the script.