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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:01:12 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cron problem
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In-Reply-To: <9791A828507D5A418741095C3FD0DDE31323D5@INDUS.paramanet.com>; from satya@paramanet.com on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:28:02PM -0500

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:28:02PM -0500, Satya Nemana wrote:
> Any info on how to make this cron work, will be of great help to us all.

Just to be sure, I'm telling my setup.

- cron installed with

  cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e "CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec"

- My /etc/passwd (partly):

  root:*:0:0:,S-1-5-32-544::
  Everyone:*:1:1:,S-1-1-0::
  SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18:/home/system:/bin/bash
  corinna::100:0:,S-1-5-21-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-1003:/home/corinna:/bin/tcsh
  dummy::101:545:,S-1-5-21-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-1004:/home/dummy:/bin/bash

- My /etc/group (partly):

  root:S-1-5-32-544:0:
  everyone:S-1-1-0:1:
  SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
  none:S-1-5-21-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-513:513:
  users:S-1-5-32-545:545:

- /etc, /etc/passwd and /etc/group world readable.

- ls -laR /var/cron

  /var/cron:
  total 0
  drwxrwxrwt    3 corinna  root            0 Jul 10 11:51 .
  drwxr-xr-x    6 dummy    users           0 Mar  8  2001 ..
  drwxrwxrwt    2 corinna  root            0 Sep 19 19:00 tabs

  /var/cron/tabs:
  total 2
  drwxrwxrwt    2 corinna  root            0 Sep 19 19:00 .
  drwxrwxrwt    3 corinna  root            0 Jul 10 11:51 ..
  -rw-r-----    1 dummy    SYSTEM        225 Sep 19 19:00 dummy
  -rw-r-----    1 corinna  SYSTEM        230 Sep 19 18:58 corinna

  `corinna' is an admin account, `dummy' is a standard user.

Cron works fine for both accounts, corinna as well as dummy.

I don't know what's your problem is.  I can just suggest to debug
your installation.

Corinna

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