X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:33:39 -0400 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" Subject: Re: cron To: =?utf-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9_Berber?= , Message-id: <01fa01c7f61b$75b90c80$46c11518@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT References: <1A1419D7B7E216498FA47FE7485F2354030A0F20@HQEXCLS01.pbmr.co.za> <46E7FE86.2090902@cygwin.com> <01bf01c7f5c6$6164e380$46c11518@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "René Berber" <> To: <> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:00 AM Subject: Re: cron Pierre A. Humblet wrote: [snip] > | On W2K3, if you expect a service to be able to switch user contexts, you > | need a special service account. You can use the 'sshd_server' account that > | would be created for you if you configure 'sshd' and ask it to create the > | account when it asks you. See the "/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README" > | for details. > > The above is correct, but later cron was switch to run as PolsonA Wrong, the log just shows that the user edited his crontab (i.e. did a `crontab -e`) which does a reload on exit. Larry's diagnostic is right, cron shouldn't be running as the user PolsonA. > 2007/09/12 16:19:31 [PolsonA] cron: PID 1432: `cron' service started > 2007/09/12 16:19:41 [PolsonA] crontab: PID 2844: (PolsonA) BEGIN EDIT (PolsonA) > 2007/09/12 16:19:46 [PolsonA] crontab: PID 2844: (PolsonA) REPLACE (PolsonA) > 2007/09/12 16:19:46 [PolsonA] crontab: PID 2844: (PolsonA) END EDIT (PolsonA) > 2007/09/12 16:20:01 [PolsonA] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 2564: (PolsonA) RELOAD (tabs/PolsonA) ************** The reload is done by /usr/sbin/cron itself on the next minute after the crontab -e exit, see the last entry above. There is nothing bad about running cron as yourself if you are the only cron user on a machine. 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/