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: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:16:09 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windows 2003 Server & Cygwin Cron Message-ID: <20031218121609.GV1941@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <200312171927.hBHJRXTp031215@xunil.starwhite.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Dec 17 14:43, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Quoting crontab.c from the cron-3.0.1-11 sources: > > /* Cygwin can't support changing the owner since that requires crontab to > be a s-uid application which is not supported. > As workaround we try to set group membership to be SYSTEM (== ROOT_UID) > and setting permissions to 640 which should allow cron to work. */ > > So, Cygwin basically assumes that the user that cron runs under will be in > the SYSTEM group, and tries to change the mode of the tab file so that > cron can access it. Unfortunately, that's not true for the directions > that Corinna gave for Win2003, since the cron_server user is not in the > SYSTEM group. One solution is to assume the invariant that cron always > runs as a user in the SYSTEM group, but, AFAICS, there is no way to add a > user to the SYSTEM group. Another solution is to select another group and > make that invariant (and add the cron_server user to it), which will > require changing the cron sources. > > Corinna, any comments? No, except that there's no SYSTEM group and using SYSTEM as a group is some sort of a Cygwin hack. Using administrators as group is actually better. Will change at one point in future. 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 Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/