From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: [ cron/crontab ] someone using cron on cygwin? Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 14:47:00 -0000 Message-id: <3AF33F9B.24184.178EAE0B@localhost> References: <3AF21637.21160.1304FF5F@localhost> <20010504101950.U24200@cygbert.vinschen.de> X-SW-Source: 2001-05/msg00262.html Corinna Vinschen schrieb am 2001-05-04, 10:19: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:38:47AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > Dear Corinna, > > > > $ crontab > > crontab: can't obtain passwd entry. > > You don't have a /etc/passwd entry for your user account. > crontab tries to get your passwd entry by calling > > struct passwd *pw = getpwuid (geteuid ()); > > So check your user id (/bin/id) and add an entry for your > user id to /etc/passwd. Or, even better, call mkpasswd to > recreate /etc/passwd. > I recreated it a dozen times: siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~ $ crontab crontab: can't obtain passwd entry. siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~ $ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~ $ crontab crontab: can't obtain passwd entry. from passwd: Siebenschlaefer::500:513:Gerrit Haase,S-1-5-21-2027841136-734554988-996637233-500:/home/siebenschlaefer:/bin/bash siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~ $ id uid=500(siebenschlaefer) gid=544(Administratoren) groups=544(Administratoren),544(Administratoren) gph -- =^..^= -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple