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Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:08:32 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
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To: Chuck Hamilton <chuckh AT softhome DOT net>
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Subject: Re: crontab error
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Chuck Hamilton wrote:
> It already the permissions set to 777.
> 
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ mkgroup_    32256 Apr 15 11:16 cron*
                            ^^^^^^^^
Ahem.  Here's the problem.  Your /etc/group file is not current.
Rerun mkgroup with the appropriate flags.  You may want to do this
for /etc/passwd too.  If one's not current, more than likely, the
other isn't either.

> I did try changing the user the service runs as but it failed with a logon
> error so I changed it back to LocalSystem. It seems like it's got to be some
> kind of Win2k permissions thing. If I run cron from a cygwin session, it
> works fine. If I run it as a service it fails to start. I've tried adding
> the cygwin /usr/bin and /usr/lib directories to my Win2k path but that
> didn't help either (though now I can run cygwin commands from a DOS prompt
> if I want).



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