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Subject: Re: WinXP upgrade breaks cron mapping
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:49:31 -0400
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Yes, my cron jobs are scheduled under my dtj011 cygwin id which is the same
as my NT id.  So the su should not be necessary.

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From: Sven Köhler skoehler AT upb DOT de
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 16:00:10 +0200
To: djordan AT augustmail DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: WinXP upgrade breaks cron mapping


> I realize the cron is running under SYSTEM account and that's why I have
to
> manually map drives within my cron scripts.  Is there any knowledge on the
> differences with XP and NT which might explain why mapping the drives with
> my own NT id would not work as they did prior to upgrading to XP?  I have
> the same permissions on the remote server as I always had.

as far as i know the SYSTEM-Account cannot acces any network drives.

you should perhaps su to your userid - altough this should already be 
done by cron itself (if the cronjobs are not scheduled to run as root).

hope it helps.
   Sven



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