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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:13:02 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: cron and NT domains
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 08:02:59AM -0700, David MacMahon wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:47:28AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Use a local account for running cron jobs (not cron!).
> 
> That's what I've been doing.  When you say "not cron!", do you mean "not
> a user called cron"?

No, I meant, run cron *jobs* under a local account, not the cron
service itself.  This one should run under SYSTEM as usual (ok, ok,
that's a local account, too, sort of).

> If that works, it would be great!  Maybe if the Access Denied error is
> returned when trying to get the group info then you could revert using
> the /etc/* info.

That's the idea, basically.  Try the next developers snapshot.

Corinna

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