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 Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:07:08 -0400 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: starting cron Message-ID: <20030622190707.GA33715527@hpn5170x> Mail-Followup-To: "Pierre A. Humblet" , cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 05:49:47PM +0000, kumarchi@attbi.com wrote: > hello: > > cron diagnostic did not find any problems. but cron still does not work in my > machine. > I am attaching the cron diagnostic files as suggested. d:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (nontsec) UID: 400(ckumar) GID: 401(mkpasswd) 401(mkpasswd) It looks like ckumar doesn't appear in /etc/passwd. Run "mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd" (or -ld if a domain user) then run "id" to verify. Pierre P.S.: perhaps testing for uid=400 and gid=401 could be added to the cron diagnostic. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/