From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corinna Vinschen To: js@ddre.dk, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: cron 2.9.2 Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 13:20:00 -0000 Message-id: <36BF52FF.832170D7@cityweb.de> References: <2991B60B9F72D011811C0000F821BB4C50B966@FREJA> X-SW-Source: 1999-02/msg00227.html Hi Jens, the error message, you got, is the hint, you haven't configured the /etc/passwd file. It's strictly needed for getting user login information. crontab reads /etc/passwd first, then checks the password, which is two-way encrypted in /var/cron/pwf and if this password isn't the NT password of the current user, it asks for the password. Any action, taken by crontab, is only done with a correct password! BTW: It's not the correct way, to edit the crontab files manually without usage of crontab(1). If you want to edit it in an editor, you should set the environment variable VISUAL or EDITOR to your favorite editor and use `crontab -e' to edit your crontab file. I didn't get a chance, to test it with domain accounts and would appreciate, if somebody (you?) would test it. Patches are welcome. Hope this helps, Corinna js@ddre.dk wrote: > > Corinna, > > I recently downloaded your cron packages ver 2.9.2. However, your > documentation isn't very clear. I did use your two binaries and the > installation was rather simple. > > /var/cron/allow contains my local NT account name (What about NT domain > accounts ?) > > After creating a cron file, I tried using crontab, with no success (It > continiously said "crontab: can't obtain passwd entry", which it > shouldn't do the first time ? > > In your readme file, you write: > > - system > - Windows NT4 with cygwin1.dll > > - Cygwin > - for B20 > - binary and text mount > - CYGWIN=[all one] > > I understand this as only the the cygwin1.dll is required ? > > Hope you can help me > > Jens Stavnstrup > js@ddre.dk -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corinna Vinschen To: js@ddre.dk, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: cron 2.9.2 Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <36BF52FF.832170D7@cityweb.de> References: <2991B60B9F72D011811C0000F821BB4C50B966@FREJA> X-SW-Source: 1999-02n/msg00229.html Message-ID: <19990228230200.M5UJno8Le5oTSZ-dkDJuXONh9R5TNYBxCSFlKoXEotQ@z> Hi Jens, the error message, you got, is the hint, you haven't configured the /etc/passwd file. It's strictly needed for getting user login information. crontab reads /etc/passwd first, then checks the password, which is two-way encrypted in /var/cron/pwf and if this password isn't the NT password of the current user, it asks for the password. Any action, taken by crontab, is only done with a correct password! BTW: It's not the correct way, to edit the crontab files manually without usage of crontab(1). If you want to edit it in an editor, you should set the environment variable VISUAL or EDITOR to your favorite editor and use `crontab -e' to edit your crontab file. I didn't get a chance, to test it with domain accounts and would appreciate, if somebody (you?) would test it. Patches are welcome. Hope this helps, Corinna js@ddre.dk wrote: > > Corinna, > > I recently downloaded your cron packages ver 2.9.2. However, your > documentation isn't very clear. I did use your two binaries and the > installation was rather simple. > > /var/cron/allow contains my local NT account name (What about NT domain > accounts ?) > > After creating a cron file, I tried using crontab, with no success (It > continiously said "crontab: can't obtain passwd entry", which it > shouldn't do the first time ? > > In your readme file, you write: > > - system > - Windows NT4 with cygwin1.dll > > - Cygwin > - for B20 > - binary and text mount > - CYGWIN=[all one] > > I understand this as only the the cygwin1.dll is required ? > > Hope you can help me > > Jens Stavnstrup > js@ddre.dk -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com