Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:01:12 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: Cron problem Message-ID: <20011220220112.Y21898@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <9791A828507D5A418741095C3FD0DDE31323D5@INDUS.paramanet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <9791A828507D5A418741095C3FD0DDE31323D5@INDUS.paramanet.com>; from satya@paramanet.com on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:28:02PM -0500 On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:28:02PM -0500, Satya Nemana wrote: > Any info on how to make this cron work, will be of great help to us all. Just to be sure, I'm telling my setup. - cron installed with cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e "CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec" - My /etc/passwd (partly): root:*:0:0:,S-1-5-32-544:: Everyone:*:1:1:,S-1-1-0:: SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18:/home/system:/bin/bash corinna::100:0:,S-1-5-21-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-1003:/home/corinna:/bin/tcsh dummy::101:545:,S-1-5-21-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-1004:/home/dummy:/bin/bash - My /etc/group (partly): root:S-1-5-32-544:0: everyone:S-1-1-0:1: SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18: none:S-1-5-21-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-513:513: users:S-1-5-32-545:545: - /etc, /etc/passwd and /etc/group world readable. - ls -laR /var/cron /var/cron: total 0 drwxrwxrwt 3 corinna root 0 Jul 10 11:51 . drwxr-xr-x 6 dummy users 0 Mar 8 2001 .. drwxrwxrwt 2 corinna root 0 Sep 19 19:00 tabs /var/cron/tabs: total 2 drwxrwxrwt 2 corinna root 0 Sep 19 19:00 . drwxrwxrwt 3 corinna root 0 Jul 10 11:51 .. -rw-r----- 1 dummy SYSTEM 225 Sep 19 19:00 dummy -rw-r----- 1 corinna SYSTEM 230 Sep 19 18:58 corinna `corinna' is an admin account, `dummy' is a standard user. Cron works fine for both accounts, corinna as well as dummy. I don't know what's your problem is. I can just suggest to debug your installation. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/