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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:20:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problem w/ cron
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Jeremy A Redburn wrote:

> I am having permissions trouble with the latest cron on Cygwin. I am
> running WindowsXP and have an ssh identity file owned by me:
>
> -rw-------    1 Administ None          672 Oct 22 16:15 identity
>
> The problem is that I do not seem to have read access to this file when
> running a command under Administrator's crontab. Right now, I have:
>
> * * * * * /usr/bin/cat /tmp/identity > /tmp/identity2 2>&1
>
> But /tmp/identity2 is just:
> /usr/bin/cat: /tmp/identity: Permission denied
>
> When I run the command from the shell, it works fine. I have run `id` from
> the shell and from cron and there is a minor difference:
>
> uid=500(Administrator) gid=513(None) groups=544(Administrators),545(Users)
> uid=500(Administrator) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),545(Users)
>
> If anyone has any ideas, or needs further information, please let me know.
>
My WAG, try the work around mentioned here:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01238.html

or wait for this:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01429.html

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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
Phone: 314-551-8460
Fax:   314-551-8444

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