X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <452D69E2.9060501@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:02:10 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1:Windows 2003 Server & Cygwin Cron References: <5378a6d40610111125tafbf553m263c2bf48a3a70b AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <5378a6d40610111125tafbf553m263c2bf48a3a70b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On 10/11/2006, Mark Schubert wrote: > cron_server AT mcspd-a ~ > cron_server>crontab -l > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/tmp/crontab.5292 installed on Wed Oct 11 18:05:28 2006) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41 corinna Exp $) > * * * * * rm ~/this > * * * * * date > /home/cron_server/date.txt > > $ ls -la > total 36 > drwxrwxrwx+ 4 cron_server None 0 Oct 11 18:05 . > drwxrwxrwx+ 6 mark None 0 Oct 11 13:59 .. > -rwxr-xr-x 1 cron_server None 1150 Aug 28 15:07 .bash_profile > -rwxr-xr-x 1 cron_server None 3116 Aug 28 15:07 .bashrc > -rwxr-xr-x 1 cron_server None 1461 Aug 28 15:07 .inputrc > drwx------+ 2 cron_server None 0 Oct 11 18:04 .ssh > drwxrwxrwx+ 3 cron_server None 0 Oct 11 15:31 WINDOWS > -rw-r--r-- 1 cron_server None 23875 Oct 11 18:03 cygcheck.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 cron_server None 0 Oct 11 14:16 this > > (no date.txt and still see "this") Try '/bin/rm' and '/bin/date'. Also, if you install ssmtp or exim, cron could send you email if there were failures. > Service : cron > Current State : Running > Controls Accepted : Stop > Command : /usr/sbin/cron -D > stdin path : /dev/null > stdout path : /var/log/cron.log > stderr path : /var/log/cron.log > Process Type : Own Process > Startup : Automatic > Account : LocalSystem > This says that cron is running as LocalSystem, not cron_server. Your sshd_server user should work for cron too if it works for sshd. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/