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To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: [ cron/crontab ] someone using cron on cygwin?
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From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr DOT Volker DOT Zell AT oracle DOT com>
Date: 04 May 2001 17:14:04 +0200
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>>>>> "Corinna" == Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> writes:

    Corinna> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:38:47AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
    >> Dear Corinna,
    >> 
    >> $ crontab
    >> crontab: can't obtain passwd entry.

    Corinna> You don't have a /etc/passwd entry for your user account.
    Corinna> crontab tries to get your passwd entry by calling

    Corinna> 	struct passwd *pw = getpwuid (geteuid ());

    Corinna> So check your user id (/bin/id) and add an entry for your
    Corinna> user id to /etc/passwd. Or, even better, call mkpasswd to
    Corinna> recreate /etc/passwd.

Corinna I get the following error when using your crontab:

vzell AT VZELL /tmp
[502]> crontab
You must enter your Windows password.
Otherwise, your crontab entries can't be executed.
Password:
crontab: Unrecoverable error 2245.


What's going on here ??

Ciao
  Volker


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