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From: "Steve Holden" <sholden AT holdenweb DOT com>
To: "Harig, Mark A." <maharig AT idirect DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <BADF3C947A1BD54FBA75C70C241B0B9E762F8C AT ex02 DOT idirect DOT net>
Subject: Re: crontab fails to change crontab file: "no changes made to crontab"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:48:02 -0400
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"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
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> -----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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