Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 00:41:16 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: New on sources: cron-3.0.1-1 Message-ID: <20010622004116.F1830@cobold.toronto.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <20010610120625.D1144@cygbert.vinschen.de> <5.1.0.14.2.20010618121739.03a46dc0@imap.mscha.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20010619153026.03b7ed90@imap.mscha.org> <20010621204325.B1830@cobold.toronto.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20010621204325.B1830@cobold.toronto.redhat.com>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 08:43:25PM +0200 On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 08:43:25PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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. Ouh, BTW, if somebody wants to take a look into the sources and send a patch to cygwin-apps, I would OF COURSE gladly appreciate it. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple