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 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:36:11 -0700 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: crontab (Attn: FAQ maintainer) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline 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> X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j7R1aLb1022750 On 8/26/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > 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). All done: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.shares -- 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/