Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Ralf Habacker" To: "cygwin" Subject: RE: another cron problem - permission denied Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 09:43:01 +0200 Message-ID: <00fb01c23c53$b99cac40$651c440a@BRAMSCHE> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: > Which version of cron are you running? cygcheck says cron 3.0.1-7 > At least part of the problem is the permission of the files in > /var/cron. > > 1. Please read /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README, in particular: I have > > > > >3.0.1-6: > >-------- > > > >Add a postinstall script which creates the /var/cron and /var/cron/tabs > >directories appropriately. > > file is there > >3.0.1-5: > >-------- > > > >Crontab now changes group membership to be SYSTEM on the crontab > >files and sets the permissions to 640. That should allow cron > >to work immediately with the crontab files created by crontab. > >Note that this requires that /etc/group has been created and > >contains the default SYSTEM entry, gid 18. DON'T CHANGE THAT! > Is there > 2. You should have a file named 'cron.sh.done' in the directory > /etc/postinstall. is there > You might try removing your /var/cron directory tree and then running > that file/script. If you don't have it, here is a copy This seems all okay. So I tried to delete the current cygwin installation (removing the cygwin base dir) and recogniced, that I can't delete the file in /var/cron because the owner is system. I tried to change the access rights and then could delete the tmp files in /var/cron/tabs, but I'm unable to delete the /var/cron/tabs folder, because I 'm not allowed to change (1) the owner and (2) am not allowed to change access rights (allowed only to view the rights ) Any idea how to fix this ? BTW: It's an NT 4.09 SP6 Workstation Ralf -- 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/