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Alexander Polson wrote:
>  <<cronbug.txt>> Hi
> 
> I have been using cygwin on windows to do daily backups with the rsync
> utility, and triggering this process using cron.
> 
> Over the last 2 years I found more and more machines in my department
> for which I can not get cron to work anymore, and forcing this backup to
> be done manually. I have tried to fix this by "RTFM", cron_diagnose.sh
> (no problem found) and cron-config, but I am still missing something.
> 
> We use Cygwin on Win XP (32 and 64 bit) and Server 2003.
> 
> I attach the cronbug.txt file.
> 
> Can you please help?

<snip>

 > 2007/09/12 11:20:15 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 3088: (CRON) error 
(can't switch user context)

<snip>

 > Service             : cron

<snip>

 > Account             : PBMR\PolsonA


On W2K3, if you expect a service to be able to switch user contexts, you
need a special service account.  You can use the 'sshd_server' account that
would be created for you if you configure 'sshd' and ask it to create the
account when it asks you.  See the "/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README"
for details.


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