Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <001801c314c5$208250f0$6400a8c0@FoxtrotTech0001> From: "Bill C. Riemers" To: References: Subject: Re: cron in cygwin Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 14:18:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 > This is *way* too complicated. It's fine if you run other things using > sysvinit, but if all you want is cron, try the way described in > /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README (you did read it, didn't you? that directory > contains the necessary instructions specifically for the Cygwin ports -- > see ). Yes, I did try the directions in the README, but they do not work. "cygrunsrv" does not have -D option... cygrunsrv: unknown option -- D > Regarding your "NOTE 1" below -- is it reproducible? Could you please > post the output of "getfacl filename" before and after "chown filename"? > Perhaps Pierre or Corinna could comment on this? It reproduces 100% of the time. I've tried it on several different machines as well.. $ cd /etc $ echo "hi" > foo.txt $ chmod 600 foo.txt $ getfacl foo.txt # file: foo.txt # owner: docbill # group: None user::rw- group::--- mask:rwx other:--- $ chown SYSTEM foo.txt $ getfacl foo.txt # file: foo.txt # owner: SYSTEM # group: None user::rw- group::--- mask:rwx other:--- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/