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Message-ID: <006101c27096$102dd680$6300000a@holdenweb.com>
From: "Steve Holden" <sholden AT holdenweb DOT com>
To: "Harig, Mark A." <maharig AT idirect DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <BADF3C947A1BD54FBA75C70C241B0B9E762F8E AT ex02 DOT idirect DOT net>
Subject: Re: crontab fails to change crontab file: "no changes made to crontab"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:48:51 -0400
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"Harig, Mark A." <maharig AT idirect DOT net> wrote:
>
> My assumptions were:
>
>    1. You are running NTFS as your file system on your disk.  Is this
> assumption correct?
>
Yes.
>    2. You have set the CYGWIN environment variable to include 'ntsec
> binmode', and that you set this variable's value using the Control
> Panel's System applet.  Is this assumption correct?
>
It wasn't, but it is now. After I'd done that I deleted /var/cron and
reestablished it using /etc/postinstall/cron.sh.done

Now the permissions look more comprehensible:

sholden AT COMPUTER ~
$ ls -Rl /var/cron
/var/cron:
total 0
drwxrwxrwt    2 sholden  None            0 Oct 10 15:21 tabs

/var/cron/tabs:
total 1
-rw-r-----    1 sholden  SYSTEM        225 Oct 10 15:21 sholden

sholden AT COMPUTER ~
$ ls -ld !$
ls -ld /var/cron
drwxrwxrwt    3 sholden  None            0 Oct 10 15:20 /var/cron

but unfortuantely crontab is still unable to edit the file it creates with
the first crontab -e. I even tried adding group write permission to
/var/cron/tabs/sholden, but that did no good either. I'm thinking
"reinstall" here ...

puzzled-ly y'rs  - steve


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Holden [mailto:sholden AT holdenweb DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 2:48 PM
> To: Harig, Mark A.; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: crontab fails to change crontab file: "no changes made to
> crontab"
>
>
> "Harig, Mark A." <maharig AT idirect DOT net> wrote:
>
> > Somehow, the cron.sh script did not get run during your
> installation.
> > Here is what it does:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > set -x
> >
> > if [ ! -d /var/cron ]
> > then
> >   mkdir -p /var/cron
> > fi
> > chmod 1777 /var/cron
> >
> > if [ ! -d /var/cron/tabs ]
> > then
> >   mkdir /var/cron/tabs
> > fi
> > chmod 1777 /var/cron/tabs
> >
>
> Thanks very much for the response. A part of my debugging
> work was to run
> the /etc/postinstall/cron.sh.done script, which appears
> substantially the
> same. Anyhow, I removed /var/cron and ran your script, but I still see
>
> crontab: no changes made to crontab
>
> when I try to edit the crontab file. Note: the first crontab
> -e creates my
> crontab file with no problems. Crontab is simply (!) unable
> to establish the
> new version.
>
> I notice that the permissions this script attempts to establish aren't
> actually being imposed:
>
> $ ls -Rl /var/cron
> /var/cron:
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x    2 sholden  None            0 Oct 10 14:35 tabs
>
> /var/cron/tabs:
> total 1
> -rw-r--r--    1 sholden  None          229 Oct 10 14:35 sholden
>
> The permissions are essentially unchaged. I even logged in as
> Administrator
> and tried:
>
> chmod 1777 /var/cron
>
> but still no changes were made to the permissions.  Does this
> indicate the
> error?
>
> regards
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
> Steve Holden
> http://www.holdenweb.com/
> Python Web Programming
> http://pydish.holdenweb.com/pwp/
> Previous .sig file retired to
> www.homeforoldsigs.com
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Holden [mailto:sholden AT holdenweb DOT com]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 1:29 PM
> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: crontab fails to change crontab file: "no changes made to
> > crontab"
> >
> >
> > I'm using a cygwin that I refreshed yesterday, on Win2K SP2.
> >
> > uname -a says: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 COMPUTER 1.3.12(0.54/3/2)
> > 2002-07-06 02:16 i686
> > unknown
> >
> > I installed the cron service following recommendations to include
> > CYGWIN="tty ntsec". Cygcheck reveals that cron is version 3.0.1-7.
> >
> > Everything appears fine when I create my crontab file, and
> > jobs do actually
> > run. But then I'm not allowed to edit the file. I even
> > deleted /var/cron to
> > ensure correct permissions, and have tried both recreating
> it with the
> > postinstall script and letting crontab recreate it. No joy.
> > The console
> > session below is fairly typical.
> >
> > sholden AT COMPUTER ~
> > $ crontab -l
> > /var/cron: No such file or directory
> > /var/cron: created
> > tabs: No such file or directory
> > tabs: created
> > no crontab for sholden
> >
> > sholden AT COMPUTER ~
> > $ crontab -e
> > no crontab for sholden - using an empty one
> > crontab: installing new crontab
> >
> > sholden AT COMPUTER ~
> > $ crontab -e
> > crontab: no changes made to crontab
> >
> > sholden AT COMPUTER ~
> > $ ls -lRF /var/cron
> > /var/cron:
> > total 0
> > drwxr-xr-x    2 sholden  None            0 Oct 10 13:11 tabs/
> >
> > /var/cron/tabs:
> > total 1
> > -rw-r--r--    1 sholden  None          224 Oct 10 13:11 sholden
> >
> > >From a cursory reading of the source this look like a
> > failure to rename the
> > temporary file. What have I done wrong?
> >
>
>
>
>
>




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