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: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:09:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Joshua Daniel Franklin cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: crontab (Attn: FAQ maintainer) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <430B3DCD.857CD22E@opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr> <430DE5CC.9A9A3629@opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr> <430F1B23.EA7DA18@opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr> <430F33F5.3BBBC098@opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr> <430F3703.6261D1BB@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 8/26/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > > > The answer is in the link that Igor gave you. This FAQ perhaps should > > > be split up into two questions, or at least be made more clear that > > > there are two problems being addressed in the answer. > > > > FWIW, I second this suggestion. Joshua, can we have two questions: "Why > > don't Cygwin services work?" and "Why can't Cygwin services access network > > shares?" instead of the combined one? > > Now that it's in DocBook, it would be a pleasure. :) > > > > The first part about user/system mounts is not your problem. Read the > > > second part of the answer, and read the 'ntsec' part of the manual for > > > the full explanation. > > --------------- > > > When cron runs your job, it is running as SYSTEM impersonating the user > > > account that owns the crontab. During impersonation, the user's > > > password is not available and so non-public network shares are not > > > available. > > --------------- > > Now, the marked part above, IMO, looks good enough to put almost verbatim > > into the second question. Opinions? > > Sure. I'll probably leave in the link to using-ntsec.html Yes, that's what I meant, in addition to what's already there about ntsec (basically everything after the code section). 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! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/