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From:	Kurt Franke <Kurt-Franke AT web DOT de>
Subject:	Re: Permission Problem with crontab
Date:	Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:06:30 +0000 (UTC)
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Adi B Treiner (abt Account <abt <at> treiner.net> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Maybe you are determining something within my cygwin configuration which
> causes the issue.
> 
> The issue is, when I'm starting jobs from crontab which should transfer
> backup archives from a local depot to a network depot, I'm  determining
> always no write access to the net share and therefore the cron job will
> fail.
> 
> If I'm doing the same from command line (bash) it works as expected.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any hints.
> 
> Regards, Adi B. Treiner
> 

Hi,

you should read the file /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-*.README
in your cygwin installation.

if your cron is running as SYSTEM this may be your problem.

accessing network shares is not supported for processes running as SYSTEM


regards

kf






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