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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Different Result using ps -efW (Manual & Cron)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130620105258.GO1620@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371716521.698.YahooMailNeo@web162103.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

On Jun 20 01:22, Jun Iriola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I made a simple script that should detect if a certain service is running or not.  Said script will run via cron.
> 
> When I tested it and executed it manually in the command prompt, it list all Cygwin and Windows processes. But when I put it in cron, the number of services detected were not the same. Account used is the same during manual execution and also on cron.
> 
> To get the list of services, I use this command /usr/bin/ps -efW.
> 
> Do you have any idea why such behavior?  Help is very much appreciated.  Thanks.

It's probably related to your user token's permissions.  See
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview
Try using method 3, it should give full, equivalent access as in
interactive mode.


Corinna

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      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-20 10:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-20  8:33 Jun Iriola
2013-06-20 13:07 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]

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