X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B7B2032.8010907@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:46:10 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /usr/bin/cron-config can render a Win2K3 box unusable References: <0KXY00F4PFGIK7FD@vms173015.mailsrvcs.net> In-Reply-To: <0KXY00F4PFGIK7FD@vms173015.mailsrvcs.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > At 03:44 PM 2/16/2010, Patrick Rynhart wrote: >> I'm on Windows Server 2003 and carefully read through >> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-4.1-57.README prior to configuring cron. >> The guide discusses how a privileged user account is required in order >> to run cron. The script /usr/bin/cron-config gives you the option of >> creating a user account on behalf (e.g. cyg_server) or using your own >> account, i.e. > > Good point, will do. Actually, this might be a csih thing... I won't be able to look into it until next week sometime, so...PTC. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple