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Subject: Re: Win2003 server and cron/sshd as services (1.5.19)
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  Was there anything in particular you are referring to in the README, 
or is this a general RTFM comment?  I have read the READMEs, googled the 
list for 5 days, picked apart the install scripts, tested with 
alternative services, reinstalled, etc.  I would like to think that I've 
done my home work.

  I believe that I understand the permissions issue that you refer to.  
Clearly I ran cron under my UID as a diagnostic procedure; I have since 
reinstalled it a number of times (correcting the permissions indicated 
in the README) and cron_diagnose is happy.  Can you suggest what may be 
wrong with permission beyond that?

  Thanks
  Mike

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 05/06/2006, Mike Dunn wrote:
>>  I did just test by running cron from the command line (not as a 
>> service), and it appears to work fine.  I suspect, that it can only 
>> exec commands under my uid, since my account does not have things 
>> like SeCreateTokenPrivilege, etc. 
>
>
> Right.  And by running it from the command line under your uid, you've 
> created
> files under /var with permissions that will keep 'cron' from running as a
> service using the sshd_server (which already has the ability to switch 
> user
> contexts on W2K3).  Your best bet here is probably to uninstall cron and
> reinstall it, using the installation instructions in
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README.
>
>


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