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Re: error starting cron on nt4
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:07:53PM +0000, Erik Bak-Mikkelsen wrote:
> I did an
> mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd
> mkpasswd -g >/etc/group
Ack! That should be `mkgroup -l >/etc/group'. Otherwise it's possible
that the context switch doesn't work.
> Please, could You elaborate on using ntsec? The only configuratioon I have
> made is CYGWIN=ntsec
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html
> But is that sufficeient? At least, now it seems that cron is executing each minut as I expect but still it gives the
Should be sufficient. Personally I prefer "CYGWIN=ntsec tty" but that
shouldn't matter.
> ... Id = 0x162 : (CRON) error (can't switch user context).
> errors in the EventLog.
> What could be causing this remembering my simple ntsec setting?
Except for the above /etc/group problem ... no idea.
You could start cron under strace to find out. Install another service
"cron2" which is installed as follows:
cygrunsrv -I cron2 -p /bin/strace \
-a '-o C:/cygwin/tmp/cron2.trace C:/cygwin/usr/sbin/cron.exe -D' \
-e 'CYGWIN=ntsec'
and then start it
cygrunsrv -S cron2
and then stop it 90 seconds later
cygrunsrv -E cron2
and then send the file C:/cygwin/tmp/cron2.trace EXCEPTIONALLY to my
personal account vinschen@redhat.com.
Corinna
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