Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <1A05332A91CFD411BC7F00902754B62201F75350@xlivmbx10.aig.com> From: "Cioffari, Joseph" To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" Subject: FW: Cron jobs won't run Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:56:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Kent, I followed instructions below but I am now having problems writing and/or creating the 'Administrator' crontab file. It is giving me 'writing /tmp/cron135 permission denied' responses. I even changed all permissions on the /tmp and /var/cron directories so that Administrator could write to it after it didn't seem to work with SYSTEM owning those directories. Any ideas? Thanks, Joe -----Original Message----- From: Headley, Kent [mailto:headley AT mbari DOT org] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 7:23 PM To: Cioffari, Joseph Subject: Re: Cron jobs won't run hello joe, I had this problem as well; I do know that part of the solution is to install cron using cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron.exe -a -D -e "CYGIWIN=tty ntsec" and/or defining 'CYGWIN=tty ntsec' in your NT environment variables. Another problem that I encountered was that the directory /var/cron/tabs must be created by the cron service to make sure that all of the permissions work correctly. Note that crontab will also create this directory if it doesn't exist, but will not set the owner, group or permissions correctly. To make this work correctly, first remove the /var/cron and all below it: rm -Rf /var/cron and then start the cron service (it will automatically create /var/cron/tabs, owned by SYSTEM) cygrunsrv -S cron Only now is it safe to run crontab to install, remove or edit cron jobs. I hope this helps. Kent Headley _____________________________ Software Engineer Research & Development Division MBARI 7700 Sandholdt Road Moss Landing, CA 95039-0628 Tel: 831.775.1822 Fax: 831.775.1645 e-mail: headley AT mbari DOT org website: http://www.mbari.org "If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." - Albert Einstein -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/