X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <31b7d2790701251155x3f1ca30bp3e897f531e6df8e4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:55:35 +0000 From: "DePriest, Jason R." To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Can't start cron daemon in Cygwin 1.5.23 under WinXP SP2 In-Reply-To: <17848.61635.141000.229307@alum.mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45B545C3 DOT DF70C019 AT dessent DOT net> <17845 DOT 36409 DOT 265000 DOT 733500 AT sanofi-aventis DOT com> <00ff01c73f0a$cb1c7090$a501a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <17848 DOT 61635 DOT 141000 DOT 229307 AT alum DOT mit DOT edu> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 1/25/07, Steve Rowley wrote: > >Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:23:19 -0000 > >From: "Dave Korn" > > > >Seems like you don't have a valid /etc/groups file. You should fix that first. > > My /etc/group file was made by: > > >$ mkgroup -lc >/etc/group > > Here are its current contents; if you can spot anything wrong, I'd be > pleased to hear it. Perhaps I suffer from myopia due to staring at > this all too long: > > >SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18: > >None:S-1-5-21-473916646-3257906905-3362627345-513:513: > >Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544: > >Backup Operators:S-1-5-32-551:551: > >Guests:S-1-5-32-546:546: > >Network Configuration Operators:S-1-5-32-556:556: > >Power Users:S-1-5-32-547:547: > >Remote Desktop Users:S-1-5-32-555:555: > >Replicator:S-1-5-32-552:552: > >Users:S-1-5-32-545:545: > >Debugger Users:S-1-5-21-473916646-3257906905-3362627345-1004:1004: > >HelpServicesGroup:S-1-5-21-473916646-3257906905-3362627345-1001:1001: > >mkgroup_l_d:S-1-5-32-545:10545: > mkgroup_l_d:S-1-5-32-545:10545: A Google search for GID 10545 implies that this is 'Domain Users'. Not that it should make a big difference, but you might want to edit your /etc/group and change mkgroup_l_d:S-1-5-32-545:10545: to Domain Users:S-1-5-32-545:10545: or however you prefer dusers:S-1-5-32-545:10545: domain_users:S-1-5-32-545:10545: Just something other than mkgroup_l_d -Jason -- 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/