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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:39:19 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: error starting cron on nt4
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In-Reply-To: <200107111907.TAA05247@mdve.oss.dk>; from ebm@oss.dk on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:07:53PM +0000

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:07:53PM +0000, Erik Bak-Mikkelsen wrote:
> I did an
>  mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd
>  mkpasswd -g >/etc/group

Ack! That should be  `mkgroup -l >/etc/group'. Otherwise it's possible
that the context switch doesn't work.

> Please, could You elaborate on using ntsec? The only configuratioon I have 
> made is CYGWIN=ntsec

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html

> But is that sufficeient? At least, now it seems that cron is executing each minut as I expect but still it gives the 

Should be sufficient. Personally I prefer "CYGWIN=ntsec tty" but that
shouldn't matter.

> ... Id = 0x162 : (CRON) error (can't switch user context).
> errors in the EventLog.
> What could be causing this remembering my simple ntsec setting?

Except for the above /etc/group problem ... no idea.

You could start cron under strace to find out. Install another service
"cron2" which is installed as follows:

    cygrunsrv -I cron2 -p /bin/strace \
              -a '-o C:/cygwin/tmp/cron2.trace C:/cygwin/usr/sbin/cron.exe -D' \
	      -e 'CYGWIN=ntsec'

and then start it

    cygrunsrv -S cron2

and then stop it 90 seconds later

    cygrunsrv -E cron2

and then send the file C:/cygwin/tmp/cron2.trace EXCEPTIONALLY to my
personal account vinschen AT redhat DOT com.

Corinna

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