From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com>
To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [ cron/crontab ] someone using cron on cygwin?
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 08:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kvu231ywn7.fsf@vzell.de.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010504101950.U24200@cygbert.vinschen.de>
>>>>> "Corinna" == Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com> writes:
Corinna> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:38:47AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> Dear Corinna,
>>
>> $ crontab
>> crontab: can't obtain passwd entry.
Corinna> You don't have a /etc/passwd entry for your user account.
Corinna> crontab tries to get your passwd entry by calling
Corinna> struct passwd *pw = getpwuid (geteuid ());
Corinna> So check your user id (/bin/id) and add an entry for your
Corinna> user id to /etc/passwd. Or, even better, call mkpasswd to
Corinna> recreate /etc/passwd.
Corinna I get the following error when using your crontab:
vzell@VZELL /tmp
[502]> crontab
You must enter your Windows password.
Otherwise, your crontab entries can't be executed.
Password:
crontab: Unrecoverable error 2245.
What's going on here ??
Ciao
Volker
--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-04 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-03 17:38 Gerrit P. Haase
2001-05-04 1:19 ` Corinna Vinschen
2001-05-04 8:13 ` Dr. Volker Zell [this message]
2001-05-04 11:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2001-05-04 14:47 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2001-05-06 11:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2001-05-06 23:34 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2001-05-07 1:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2001-05-04 22:46 ` Adrian Phillips
2001-05-07 7:06 David Larsson (ERA)
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=kvu231ywn7.fsf@vzell.de.oracle.com \
--to=dr.volker.zell@oracle.com \
--cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).