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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:24:37 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem with installing crontab on Cygwin(1.5.11/1005.11.0.0)/WinXP SP2
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:13:55AM +0000, Barry Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:33:57 -0500, Harig, Mark wrote:
> > I (Barry Kelly) wrote:
> > > I'm getting the following error when trying to install a
> > > crontab on my account:
> > >
> > > $ crontab -e
> > > # editing my crontab here...
> > > chown: Invalid argument
> > 
> > Please run this diagnostic script.  It will attempt to locate
> > many types of common problems with cron on cygwin.
> > 
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00207.html
> > 
> > Please read the output of the script carefully.  If it finds
> > problems, it suggests possible fixes, and it will also recommend
> > steps to take if it is unable to detect any problems
> 
> I did what it suggested: the errors it notified me were that
> /etc/passwd and /etc/group needed to be marked +r. I did this (chmod
> 0644).
> 
> > For what it is worth, crond is working on both Win2K and WinXP for me.
> 
> In the previous three installs of cygwin I did, it was working under
> both Win2K and WinXP for me too.
> 
> However, crond (specifically, the daemon) isn't part of the problem.
> Crontab fails with the error message even if the service hasn't been
> started. I'll download the source and trace through it some time this
> evening local time (GMT+0).
> 
> > The following commands should give you a simple, and possibly valid,
> > password file:
> > 
> >   $ mv /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.save
> >   $ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> >   $ mkpasswd -d -u [your Windows user ID] >> /etc/passwd
> > 
> > You would edit your entry then if you wanted to change your login
> > shell, home directory, group, etc.
> 
> Sure. Did this, but got no further.
> 
> Thanks for the reply. BTW, I'm subscribed to this list and will be
> until I get this error fixed, so there's no need to cc me.

crontab chowns the crontab file group to 18. Make sure that gid 18
is in /etc/group. Also I find it hard to believe that the strace you
got gives no useful information.

Pierre

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