Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2001 20:43:25 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: New on sources: cron-3.0.1-1
Message-ID:	<20010621204325.B1830@cobold.toronto.redhat.com>
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References:	<20010610120625 DOT D1144 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20010618121739 DOT 03a46dc0 AT imap DOT mscha DOT org> <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20010619153026 DOT 03b7ed90 AT imap DOT mscha DOT org>
Mime-Version:	1.0
User-Agent:	Mutt/1.3.12i
In-Reply-To:	<5.1.0.14.2.20010619153026.03b7ed90@imap.mscha.org>; from cygwin@mscha.com on Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 03:38:57PM +0200

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 03:38:57PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote:
> At 12:27 18-6-2001, I wrote:
> >At 12:06 10-6-2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>I have uploaded version 3.0.1-1 of cron.
> >
> >I installed the service as described in cron.README and started it, and it 
> >seems to run.
> >
> >However, I cannot get crontab to work.  When I type "crontab -l" (or any 
> >other crontab command), I get a message "seteuid: not owner".
> 
> I verified that cron indeed works by manually putting a crontab file at 
> /var/cron/tabs/$USER .
> 
> So, it seems that crontab tries to change the effective uid, which doesn't 
> work for normal (or even Administrator) users.  Is this 
> necessary?  Wouldn't this mean that crontab works for nobody, unless you 
> add some (dangerous) rights to these users?
> /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README doesn't mention anything about this.

Maybe, I missed something when porting. I'm currently in vacation
so that will take some time.

Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Developer                                mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat, Inc.

--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

- Raw text -