From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17857 invoked by alias); 14 May 2008 22:18:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 17846 invoked by uid 22791); 14 May 2008 22:18:48 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from vms173005pub.verizon.net (HELO vms173005pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 May 2008 22:18:23 +0000 Received: from PHUMBLETLAPXP ([12.6.244.2]) by vms173005.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0K0V00AB7POL1HK7@vms173005.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 14 May 2008 17:12:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 22:28:00 -0000 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" Subject: Re: cron problems To: "Charles Miller" , Message-id: <01bb01c8b610$6554b000$20dcfea9@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-05/txt/msg00282.txt.bz2 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Miller" <> To: Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 5:47 PM Subject: cron problems I'm a little confused. Ps -eaf shows the cron process running. However Windows Services say that it is not. My crontab is coming back with incorrect permissions. Can you let me know what I need to do to get cron working ? ************* You have a cron service defined but stopped under the account cron_server but you also have a cron process running ./cron under account administrator (10500). It was not launched as a service and it has locked /var/run/cron.pid, preventing other crons from running. In addition you seem to have users called both Administrator and also administrator, which is suspicious. The group of administrator is mkgroup-l-d, which suggests that your /etc/group file is not up to date. The uid of administrator is 10500, it is probably a domain administrator who may not be in /etc/passwd. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/