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From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
Subject: Re: cron problems
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Miller" <>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 5:47 PM
Subject: cron problems


I'm a little confused. Ps -eaf shows the cron process running. However Windows Services say that 
it is not. My crontab is coming back with incorrect permissions. Can you let me know what I need 
to do to get cron working ?
*************

You have a cron service defined but stopped under the account cron_server
but you also have a cron process running ./cron under account administrator (10500).
It was not launched as a service and it has locked /var/run/cron.pid, preventing other
crons from running.

In addition you seem to have users called both Administrator and also administrator, which is 
suspicious.

The group of administrator is mkgroup-l-d, which suggests that your /etc/group file is not up to 
date.
The uid of administrator  is 10500, it is probably a domain administrator who may not be
in /etc/passwd.

Pierre



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