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From: "Wyant, Jaime" <jwyant AT sfbcic DOT com>
To: "'egor duda'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: cron and user context
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:36:20 -0500 
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Thanks!  I did not realize this.

jaime

>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: egor duda [mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru]
>>>Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 9:30 AM
>>>To: Wyant, Jaime
>>>Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>>>Subject: Re: cron and user context
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>Thursday, 02 August, 2001 Wyant, Jaime jwyant AT sfbcic DOT com wrote:
>>>
>>>WJ> When cron reads a users crontab, does it do something 
>>>similar to: "su
>>>WJ> username"?
>>>
>>>yes.
>>>
>>>WJ> If cron does execute programs as the owner of each 
>>>crontab, then should I be
>>>WJ> able to see all of the "shares" that are available to that user?
>>>
>>>yes.
>>>
>>>WJ> I have a share mapped to drive "H" but the shell scripts 
>>>I am running via
>>>WJ> cron keep getting "access is denied" messages when I try 
>>>to output to my "H"
>>>WJ> drive.  
>>>
>>>you can't use mapped drive names. use UNC paths, i.e. 
\\server\share\path\to\file.ext
instead. This holds true for any windows program that changes user
context, not for only cygwin ones.

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19

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