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: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:19:00 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygrunsrv: cron context switch problem Message-ID: <20020116141900.N2015@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20020116151059.A1544@NOTEBK> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020116151059.A1544@NOTEBK> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:10:59PM +0200, alper wrote: > Hi, > > Platform is W2K, user is a member of Administrators group. > Cron is installed as a service and started as follows: > > cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D > cygrunsrv -S cron > > Services applet in MMC shows cron service is installed under LocalSystem > account and started. > /etc/group has SYSTEM entry with gid 18. > $CYGWIN is 'ntsec' > crontab has a "ls -l" command that gets scheduled every 5 minutes. > > But, I see the following in event log every 5 minutes: > "...(CRON) error (can't switch user context)." > > > Can anybody comment on this? The mailing list archive, perhaps? 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/