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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 11:23:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Andrew DeFaria cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: CRON problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1083885162.409ac66a5ab06@topcat.ims.uaf.edu> <1083888621.409ad3eded2a0@topcat.ims.uaf.edu> <409AED9A.A91CA4A0@dessent.net> <409B3999.94026545@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Fri, 7 May 2004, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Fri, 7 May 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > >> Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> > >>> # Install cron service: > >>> cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -d "Cygwin cron" -e "MAILTO=$USER@Salira.com" -e "CYGWIN=ntsec" > >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >> As an aside, hasn't 'ntsec' been enabled by default for a long time > >> now? Or am I just remembering incorrectly? > >> > >> Brian > > > > You are remembering correctly -- "ntsec" was enabled by default back > > in the 1.3.* days. That makes the above redundant but harmless. Having > > "ntsec" in your $CYGWIN also serves as reminder/documentation for the > > actual option values (even if they are the default). > > CYGWIN=ntsec is not the default for inetd --install-as-service. Perhaps > it should be... Huh? Do you mean "inetd --install-as-service" actually puts "nontsec" in $CYGWIN? Otherwise, if "ntsec" is not specified, it's on (which is what Brian said, too). > Then again, perhaps --install-as-service should be removed and users > instructed to use cygrunsrv instead... That's the maintainer's choice. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/