From: "Harig, Mark" <maharig@idirect.net>
To: "Davies, Roger" <Roger.Davies@swiftbrands.com>,
<npereira@videotron.ca>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: cron issue
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 19:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C874DBE9D30B584587F8CD0EC34DA8BE019195BD@EX00.idirect.net> (raw)
> I believe the problem was in the user accounts I have
> setup on my windows box. I have both a domain
> account <domain name>\rdavies, and a machine
> account <machine name>\rdavies. I'll spare you the
> reasons why. While I had stopped and deleted the
> service cron with cygrunsrv, I had never tried to
> install and start the service using the 2 steps.
> When I tried, the -u rdavies flag actually picked
> up the machine not domain user. And it wouldn't start.
>
> I deleted the machine user (assigned to group none,
> and not likely to get any use anyway) and then
> reconfigured with cron-configure. Poof! I now
> have a new line every minute in the goofy log
> file I was testing with. Thanks for your help.
If you are able to think of a test that can be added
to cron_diagnose.sh, please post it on this mail list.
It sounds like there should be a test to see whether
the user's ID is "valid for cron", by some definition.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-17 19:45 Harig, Mark [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-13 14:34 Cron Issue Barnhart Jay
2007-08-13 14:38 ` Pierre A. Humblet
2007-08-13 15:12 ` Barnhart Jay
2007-08-13 17:01 ` Pierre A. Humblet
2006-05-17 22:54 cron issue Harig, Mark
2006-05-16 22:36 Davies, Roger
2006-05-16 22:07 Harig, Mark
2006-05-16 21:34 Davies, Roger
2006-05-16 20:37 Harig, Mark
2006-05-16 19:33 Davies, Roger
2006-05-16 15:52 Harig, Mark
2006-05-16 16:04 ` Nelson Pereira
2006-05-16 15:16 Davies, Roger
2006-05-16 15:36 ` Nelson Pereira
2005-06-29 21:42 Imran Merali
2005-06-29 21:44 ` René Berber
2005-06-29 22:13 ` Larry Hall
2005-07-01 14:40 ` Imran Merali
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