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Re: set up cron


On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:02:53PM -0500, Yong Liu wrote:
> I have a machine (W2k) in a network, with a couple of mapped drive from
> other computer,
> I tried to set up cron in cygwin using local administrator or domain
> administrator,
> but all the job in the cron that tried to access the mapped drive will fail.

Right, that's described multiple times on this mailing list.
Search the archive.

> ( I normally stayed on the pc as myself) I am wondering if I can
> set up cron just as myself,  And how to do that?

You can't.  cron expects to run as SYSTEM.  Tweaking cron needs
some knowledge of NT security and recompiling.

Corinna

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