Subject: Re: [ cron/crontab ] someone using cron on cygwin?
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
To: Corinna Vinschen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 08:35:02 +0200

Corinna Vinschen schrieb am 2001-05-06, 20:06:

Hi Corinna,

> > I recreated it a dozen times:
> > 
> > siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~
> > $ crontab
> > crontab: can't obtain passwd entry.
> > 
> > siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~
> > $ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> > 
> > siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~
> > $ crontab
> > crontab: can't obtain passwd entry.
> > 
> > from passwd:
> > Siebenschlaefer::500:513:Gerrit Haase,S-1-5-21-2027841136-734554988-996637233-500:/home/siebenschlaefer:/bin/bash
> > 
> > siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~
> > $ id
> > uid=500(siebenschlaefer) gid=544(Administratoren) groups=544(Administratoren),544(Administratoren)
> 
> You will have to debug that.
> 
> Corinna
> 

It works now if logged in as a user (news), but only if invoked:
 $ crontab -e

in editor mode.

Another question, invoked by cron, the application starts up and
i get a pid which i am able to see in 'taskmanager' but if I call
ps at commandline, it is not shown?
Is that a known issue?

gph

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