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RE: cron and user context
- To: 'egor duda' <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: cron and user context
- From: "Wyant, Jaime" <jwyant at sfbcic dot com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:36:20 -0500
Thanks! I did not realize this.
jaime
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: egor duda [mailto:deo@logos-m.ru]
>>>Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 9:30 AM
>>>To: Wyant, Jaime
>>>Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
>>>Subject: Re: cron and user context
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>Thursday, 02 August, 2001 Wyant, Jaime jwyant@sfbcic.com wrote:
>>>
>>>WJ> When cron reads a users crontab, does it do something
>>>similar to: "su
>>>WJ> username"?
>>>
>>>yes.
>>>
>>>WJ> If cron does execute programs as the owner of each
>>>crontab, then should I be
>>>WJ> able to see all of the "shares" that are available to that user?
>>>
>>>yes.
>>>
>>>WJ> I have a share mapped to drive "H" but the shell scripts
>>>I am running via
>>>WJ> cron keep getting "access is denied" messages when I try
>>>to output to my "H"
>>>WJ> drive.
>>>
>>>you can't use mapped drive names. use UNC paths, i.e.
\\server\share\path\to\file.ext
instead. This holds true for any windows program that changes user
context, not for only cygwin ones.
Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
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