From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4301 invoked by alias); 7 Sep 2003 18:08:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 4294 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2003 18:08:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Sep 2003 18:08:57 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h87I8vmL018660; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:08:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id h87I8vHr018657; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:08:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 18:08:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: =?ISO-8859-15?B?UmVu6SBIYWJlcg==?= cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cron: can't switch user context In-Reply-To: <162346531.20030907190616@gmx.de> Message-ID: References: <162346531.20030907190616@gmx.de> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-ID: X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00476.txt.bz2 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 Do you Google? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/