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Re: cron
Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
[snip]
> | On W2K3, if you expect a service to be able to switch user contexts, you
> | need a special service account. You can use the 'sshd_server' account that
> | would be created for you if you configure 'sshd' and ask it to create the
> | account when it asks you. See the "/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README"
> | for details.
>
> The above is correct, but later cron was switch to run as PolsonA
Wrong, the log just shows that the user edited his crontab (i.e. did a `crontab
-e`) which does a reload on exit. Larry's diagnostic is right, cron shouldn't
be running as the user PolsonA.
> 2007/09/12 16:19:31 [PolsonA] cron: PID 1432: `cron' service started
> 2007/09/12 16:19:41 [PolsonA] crontab: PID 2844: (PolsonA) BEGIN EDIT (PolsonA)
> 2007/09/12 16:19:46 [PolsonA] crontab: PID 2844: (PolsonA) REPLACE (PolsonA)
> 2007/09/12 16:19:46 [PolsonA] crontab: PID 2844: (PolsonA) END EDIT (PolsonA)
> 2007/09/12 16:20:01 [PolsonA] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 2564: (PolsonA) RELOAD (tabs/PolsonA)
> and everything looks normal (cron reloaded the crontab).
> Did you wait long enough for the jobs to run?
> Please look at cron.log in the home directory of PolsonA, and possibly at /tmp/*cron* files for
> further output from the jobs.
--
Renà Berber
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