Re: cron & Windows 7

[Matthias Andree <matthias dot andree at gmx dot de>]

Am 11.02.2010 14:41, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Feb 11 08:25, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Shaddy Baddah"
>> To: "Pierre A. Humblet"
>> Cc: cygwin
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 23:36
>> 
>> 
>> | Hi,
>> |
>> | On 11/02/2010 3:28 AM, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> | > I got reports that cron is having problems with Cygwin 1.7.1 on
>> | > Windows 7 - 32 bits.
>> | > They occur only with seteuid method 1, not with method 2 nor method 3.
>> |
>> | Based purely on the above (and not the rest of the report... sorry) I
>> | suspect it might be due to a problem that has just been fixed in CVS
>> | (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2010-02/msg00037.html). If you
>> | have time to kill before someone of authority intervenes, you may want
>> | to try a snapshot (http://cygwin.com/snapshots/) and see if it helps.
>> |
>> 
>> Thanks Shaddy, I will point this to the user.
>> However according to the mails on the developers' list I don't see why the
>> changes would apply to Method 1.
>> 
>> Pierre
> 
> No, that's not related.  But we had a few reports on the list already
> concerning sshd and it seemed to be a problem with using a non-Domain
> cyg_server user running sshd, which lead to a crippled token:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00334.html
> This is not related to W7, but should be a problem starting with
> Windows Server 2003.
> 
> Pierre, you know a lot about this authentication stuff in Cygwin, you
> applied a couple of patches yourself, and you have a copyright
> assignment in place.  If you think there's another problem lurking,
> please help with debugging and patches.

Hi everyone,

let's not play Chinese Whispers. :-)
I am the one who reported this issue to Pierre and who provided the logs.

Windows 7 Professional 32-bit (German), build 7600,
this computer is not a domain client, but standalone.

Cygwin 1.7.1 release, cron logging to syslog-ng.

Running cron as dedicated user fails for me - see the logs Pierre referred to.
Configuring cyglsa as setuid method and running cron as "SYSTEM" works for me.

Is trying the CVS or a snapshot (which one?) worthwhile?
Anything besides cygwin1.dll to be replaced for a test?

Best

-- 
Matthias Andree

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