RE: cron / crontab different permissions

[Dan Gardner <Dan dot Gardner at emap dot com>]

I found/use the same work around:
crontab blabla;chmod 666 /var/cron/tabs/username

Its a shame as just 2 weeks ago this was working fine for me,  then windows
does its blue-screen belly flop.  I didn't keep a record of the cron &
cygwin version I was using previously.

Personally I've been through the source, as I had to turn off Event Log
logging, but I'm not a very good source editor yet, if I find anything I'll
let you know.

I'm on the opinion it may be related to the environment value for CYGWIN, or
maybe the stuff below:

Just a note, when the makefile has the following two lines:
			$(INSTALL) -c -m  755 -o root -s cron
$(DESTSBIN)/
			$(INSTALL) -c -m 4755 -o root -s crontab $(DESTBIN)/
I replace root with SYSTEM.  I presume this is correct ?! > anyone who knows
:).

cheers
dan

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Tishler [mailto:jason@tishler.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 4:11 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cron / crontab different permissions


Chris,

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:31:58AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:03:09AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> >What are Dan and I missing?
> 
> Standard answer #1: Inspection of the cron source, maybe?

I agree that the above is one way -- the definitive way.

However, I assumed that someone else (possibly many) have gotten cron to
work on their system.  I also assumed that some of those would be kind
enough to share their knowledge -- I have done so on many occasions in
the past.

Unfortunately, if the above assumptions are invalid, then I will resort
to your suggestion.

Jason

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