Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Brian Cruikshank" <brian AT cruik DOT org>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Windows 2003 Server & Cygwin Cron
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0700
Message-ID: <NPEOLGGPKHICABBIJEIBCELECCAA.brian@cruik.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
Importance: Normal
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel15.gzo.com
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - cygwin.com
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - cruik.org

Hello all,

I have been able to get Cygwin Cron up and operational on Windows XP Home
and Windows XP Pro.  I am having problems getting working on Windows 2003
Server.

I have installed it as described in many places and the Cron appears to be
running.  I tried the simple /usr/bin/date job, and I get the error in the
Event Log: "(CRON) error (can't switch user context)."  I have tried putting
the everyone group on the Local Security policies for "Create a token
object", "Logon as service", and "Replace a process level token".  The
problem still happens.

I looked through the archives and it appears that no solution has worked
yet.  Or at least it has not been published yet.  I asked the last person to
work on this problem, and they gave up.

Can we revisit this again?  Does anybody have ideas?

By the way, I see reference to a cron README file that should have been in
the install.  I cannot find it anywhere yet.  Did it get lost in the new
releases or is it hiding somewhere other than /usr/doc?

/Brian Cruikshank


--
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/