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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:42:46 -0400
To: pianoman AT msoft DOT com (Scott Cokely), cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: CRON startup problems with Win2K
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At 11:19 AM 6/12/2002, Scott Cokely wrote:
>I was looking through the mail archives for help with this, and found
>a post by Jari Aalto describing my problem, but I didn't see the resolution.
>
>The error that I get is:
>
>    cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1062:
>    The service has not been started.


More than likely, this is because a needed service isn't starting before
crond.  Check the email archives for this problem.  You'll find some 
suggestions of services you might want to create dependencies for.


>The error from "cron.exe" when run on the command line is:
>
>    seteuid: Not owner
>
>Corinna Vinschen responded with:
>
>>> Sure. cron needs privileges only given to SYSTEM by default.
>
>So my question is:  What do I do to give cron these privileges?  Starting
>cron as Administrator doesn't do it, and according to the README, cron
>is supposed to run as SYSTEM by default.  What do I need to do to make
>this work for me?


The SYSTEM account has the required privileges.  No other account does by
default.  See inetutils-*.README for the list of privileges required.  Keep
in mind that adding these privileges to another account opens a security 
hole.



>By the way, the command I'm using to create the service is as follows:
>
>    cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e "CYGWIN=tty ntsec"


Seems OK.


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