Re: cron: can't switch user context

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>]

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, René Haber wrote:

> Hello
>
> I've got Cygwin runnig on Windows 2003 and wanted to use the cron
> daemon. I installed it via
>
>    cygrunsrv -I "CYGWIN crond" -p /usr/sbin/cron.exe -a -D
>
> as a NT-Service. Then I added a cronjob via "crontab -e" (I was logged
> in as Administrator)
>
>    5 * * * * echo "test" > test.txt
>
> after that, I started the cron-service and waited for the test-job to
> complete. But instead of doing the job cron complaind in the Syslog
> about
>
>      Ereignisinformationen: /USR/SBIN/CRON : PID 228 : (CRON) error (can't switch user context).
>
> I checked my install via a shellscript (cron_diagnose.sh) I found in
> the Mailing-List Archiv, but it didn't find a problem.
>
> Is there a solution to this Problem or a work-around?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Rene Haber

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