RE: Strange Crond behavior

["Steven Caswell" <stevencaswell at yahoo dot com>]

Michael, I'm having the same problem you are having, mine on XP
Professional. Did you have to do anything special to the SYSTEM user or
any of the Unix security files to get this to work? I've tried the exact
command you used below and I still get the problem.

TIA.


Steven Caswell
stevencaswell@yahoo.com
a.k.a Mungo Knotwise of Michel Delving
"One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them..."


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Michael Lang
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 4:16 PM
> To: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Strange Crond behavior
> 
> 
> Hi Larry 
> 
> Thanks for answering ... but iīve already readed the dos and 
> tried using the install steps .. I now used cygrunsrv -I cron 
> -d "Cron" -p /usr/sbin/cron -a "-D" -1 /var/log/cron.log -2 
> /var/log/cron.log for service installation. It now works ... 
> *strange* maybe the EventLog tells some more defusing 
> informations than needed. 
> 
> Thanks for your answer anyway 
> 
> Greetz mIke 
> 
> Michael Lang				           System Engineer
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com] 
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 4:39 PM
> To: Michael Lang; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Strange Crond behavior
> 
> At 05:47 AM 4/1/2002, Michael Lang wrote:
> >Hello to all
> >
> >Sorry for bothering but I didnīt find an issue for these strange 
> >behavior of the Crond .
> >
> >Does someone knows why using cron as service doesn't start any 
> >scheduled tasks ? Event Error :
> >
> >Using /usr/sbin/cron -D
> >  > seteuid: Not owner
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 
> >0x9D0 : Cygwin Process Id = 0x9D0 : (CRON) error (can't switch user 
> >context).
> 
> 
> The problem?  Looks like the same old one to me.  You're not 
> running cron as SYSTEM.  It seems many folks don't follow 
> directions and don't check the email archives when they have 
> a problem as a result.  Read the README and follow 
> the instructions there.  If you still have problems, check 
> the email archives for similar questions.  There should be 
> plenty of information in these two 
> avenues to solve this issue.  If not, you'll need to be more 
> specific about 
> why the standard configuration doesn't work for you.
> 
> 
> Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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