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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:50:42 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: Cygwin Maillist <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: cron ignores my settings
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In-Reply-To: <OF09063CA6.6EF09428-ON85256A8F.00467E9A@ingerrand.com>; from Devin_McRorie@ingersoll-rand.com on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 08:54:12AM -0400

On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 08:54:12AM -0400, Devin McRorie wrote:
> 
> I'm having a devil of a time getting cron to do anything under cygwin.  Is
> there a way to do diagnostics, or see cron error info or check how cron is
> setup to figure out why it isn't working?
> 
> I am logged in as Administrator on a Windows 2000 machine.  I use crontab
> -e to put in a task.  The task is:
> 
> 40 08 * * * /u/srcmail/sh/runmc
> 
> Of course the header information is all about not editing the crontab file
> directly.  I left that out since we've all seen it.  I've even tried
> setting the runmc script with chmod +x which doesn't seem to do anything as
> ls still shows it has no execute privilege.   Please note that the runmc
> script does execute and work properly when I call it manually!  So the
> problem is probably with cron or the cygwin setup.
> 
> I really appreciate your help!

Perhaps cron isn't able to switch user context. Check both,
your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, use mkpasswd and mkgroup
to regenerate them if needed. Try using the latest developer
snapshot of Cygwin.

Corinna

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