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: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:08:37 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with installing crontab on Cygwin(1.5.11/1005.11.0.0)/WinXP SP2 Message-ID: <20041103150837.GA448027@Worldnet> References: <3adf6db80411030213560868d3@mail.gmail.com> <20041103142437.GA648719@Worldnet> <3adf6db804110306343bbdc66d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3adf6db804110306343bbdc66d@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:34:03PM +0000, Barry Kelly wrote: > On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:24:37 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet > wrote: > > > > crontab chowns the crontab file group to 18. Make sure that gid 18 > > is in /etc/group. Also I find it hard to believe that the strace you > > got gives no useful information. > > This did it. Group 18 (SYSTEM) was not in /etc/group; instead, > /etc/group only contained domain groups, not local groups. I ran > 'mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group' to recreate the file. Glad it's fixed. Hey Mark, care to add another test to cron_diagnose? (see sample in postinstall/exim.sh.done) Pierre -- 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/