Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/05/10/10:31:45
Was there anything in particular you are referring to in the README,
or is this a general RTFM comment? I have read the READMEs, googled the
list for 5 days, picked apart the install scripts, tested with
alternative services, reinstalled, etc. I would like to think that I've
done my home work.
I believe that I understand the permissions issue that you refer to.
Clearly I ran cron under my UID as a diagnostic procedure; I have since
reinstalled it a number of times (correcting the permissions indicated
in the README) and cron_diagnose is happy. Can you suggest what may be
wrong with permission beyond that?
Thanks
Mike
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 05/06/2006, Mike Dunn wrote:
>> I did just test by running cron from the command line (not as a
>> service), and it appears to work fine. I suspect, that it can only
>> exec commands under my uid, since my account does not have things
>> like SeCreateTokenPrivilege, etc.
>
>
> Right. And by running it from the command line under your uid, you've
> created
> files under /var with permissions that will keep 'cron' from running as a
> service using the sshd_server (which already has the ability to switch
> user
> contexts on W2K3). Your best bet here is probably to uninstall cron and
> reinstall it, using the installation instructions in
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README.
>
>
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