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 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Subject: Problem to install a crontab Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:07:20 +0200 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: cygwin DOT 20 DOT job AT spamgourmet DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Folks, this is he first time I try to get a crontab running. I installed the cron server as I found it in the archive with the following commands ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- net user cron_server /add /yes net localgroup cron_server /add editrights -a SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege -u cron_server editrights -a SeCreateTokenPrivilege -u cron_server editrights -a SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege -u cron_server editrights -a SeServiceLogonRight -u cron_server mkpasswd -l -u cron_server >> /etc/passwd For security reasons: editrights -a SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight -u cron_server editrights -a SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -u cron_server editrights -a SeDenyRemoteInteractiveLogonRight -u cron_server And then create a cron service using that account: cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -u cron_server -w net user cron_server /add /yes net localgroup cron_server /add editrights -a SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege -u cron_server editrights -a SeCreateTokenPrivilege -u cron_server editrights -a SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege -u cron_server editrights -a SeServiceLogonRight -u cron_server mkpasswd -l -u cron_server >> /etc/passwd For security reasons: editrights -a SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight -u cron_server editrights -a SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -u cron_server editrights -a SeDenyRemoteInteractiveLogonRight -u cron_server And then create a cron service using that account: cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -u cron_server -w ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- I have the problem to install a crontab. $ crontab ~/bin/crontab chown: Invalid argument I don't know why chown is complaining that he get an Invalid argument, Regards Franz -- 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/