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Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 08:23:04 -0400
From: Louis Bohm <lbohm AT lightbridge DOT com>
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To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: crontab: can't obtain passwd entry
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I did do a mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd and a mkgroup -l > /etc/group.  After I
did that I tried the crontab -e and sill had the problem.

Then I tried to do something smart, or so I though, and run gdb crontab.
Unfortunately gdb has problems with crontab.

Louis

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:03:18AM -0400, Louis Bohm wrote:
> > I am getting the above when trying to run corncob -e.  The manage
>
> When crontab is started it tries to get your /etc/passwd entry.
> There is none. Fix your /etc/passwd (mkpasswd).
>
> Corinna
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