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, 30 Jan 2005 13:50:55 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: pierre.humblet@ieee.org cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cron problem on Windows 2003 In-Reply-To: <41FABA7A.7B4366A5@phumblet.no-ip.org> Message-ID: References: <20050128193034.GA883053@Worldnet> <41FA9B87.3FB15A8E@phumblet.no-ip.org> <41FABA7A.7B4366A5@phumblet.no-ip.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > I don't know, I kind of prefer the way it's phrased in the openssh.README > > (i.e., a special note about the user privileges in Win2003, rather than a > > common description). That README also has a nice step-by-step description > > of what sshd-host-config does, so that the users have the option to do the > > installation steps manually (or verify that the needed things were > > created). But hey, I don't use cron extensively, and I certainly can't > > speak for new users... > > Thanks for the feedback, Igor. > The need for the special user is generic to all services > (sshd, crond, exim...). Instead of repeating the same > info in all the readmes, I will refer to > > although that section should be corrected and expanded. Sounds like a good idea, Pierre. 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! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/