Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:45:09 +0100
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From: will DOT wright AT tiscali DOT co DOT uk
Subject: Cron jobs won't run with network drive
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First off - I have read the mailing lists, this is more of a moan....

Having in initially set up my cron service to run as SYSTEM by default I
came across the issue where it couldn't access my java installation because
it was on a network drive.

So - I then tried using a user who has access to the domain to install cron
with. That user wasn't recognised when I installed the cron service, so i
had to create a local user with the same name in the hope it might pick up
the domain users rights.

Thinking I was getting somewhere I then came across the issue where running
crontab -e screwed up the rights on the cron file hence breaking any chance
my job had of running (as described in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00743.html).

This pretty much makes cron unuseable for me on windows so I'm looking around
other solutions now. I really think this info shoudl be in the cron readme
so people don't waste valuable time trying to show horn it into action.

I also found this post - but unfortunately pointing people back at the mailing
lists doesn't help a lot :)
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg00649.html

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