From: corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de (Corinna Vinschen) Subject: Re: crond for CYGWIN32? 9 Oct 1998 09:19:18 -0700 Message-ID: <361D3945.6046E6D7.cygnus.gnu-win32@cityweb.de> References: <015c01bdf237$1225c470$c50bc3d1 AT TURING> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jeff , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Jeff wrote: > > Is there any kind of cron daemon for cygwin32? I've looked around but > haven't seen anything. The 'at' service for NT is sorely lacking.. Hi Jeff, I have written a cron, which runs as WinNT service and a graphical crontab tool. No panic! The crontab, cron.allow and cron.deny files are compatible to cron files on real computers. But there are three problems: The worst problem, 'cause it's persistent: Under WinNT, you can't create a child process as another user, if you don't know the password, even if the parent process runs as Administrator or, in case of services, as LocalSystem. So, the crontab GUI asks for your password, and saves it again with own encryption method. If you have done this one time, you can later edit your personal crontab file with any editor. The less worse problem, because it could be changed in further releases: Unfortunately, the shell which executes the commandline is currently cmd.exe :-( And then, bad news are never alone: The package is written for and compiled with BIG BROTHER'S compiler... If you (or others) are interested in, I would publish the binaries (never the sources, I don't want to tell the used encryption method) and a short description of installing and usage. Corinna - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".