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Le 16/04/2010 20:42, Tom Schutter a =E9crit :
>
> I have number of machines running Windows2003 and Cygwin 1.7.5.  On most =
cron works.  But on one (lemon) it does not.  It appears that on lemon cron=
 cannot switch the user context.
>
> Cronevents on lemon shows:
>
> 2010/04/15 17:19:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 656: (tschutter) CMD (/u=
sr/bin/python /cygdrive/f/production-sync/production-sync.py)
> 2010/04/15 17:19:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 656: (CRON) error (can't=
 switch user context)
>
> /var/log/cron.log is empty on all machines.

let's configure syslogd from inetutils to have some logs :
syslogd-config --yes

you may need to configure sshd before to have the right permissions
on /var/empty, etc. (ssh-host-config --yes --user "${CYGSERVER_USER}"=20
--pwd "${CYGSERVER_PASS}" where CYGSERVER_USER=3Dcyg_server and=20
CYGSERVER_PASS=3Dwhatever you want)

PS : well, I prefer the legacy one than the ng one...

PS2: IMHO, linux^Wcygwin cron(^W^Wlinux) sucks bcoz it doesn't report on=20
tasks return codes as a true unix does... (i.e.: <  root 1331 c Tue Feb=20
  2 17:32:36 MET 2010 rc=3D1)

> The cron daemon is running as SYSTEM on all machines.

2K3 may need to be running under cyg_server ?

to configure cron, I use :

cron-config << EOF
yes

no
no
no
${CYGSERVER_PASS}
${CYGSERVER_PASS}
no
EOF

PS : doesn't support csih yet :-(

> cyglsa is running on all machines.

did you reboot after configuring cyglsa ?

> cygserver is not running on any machine.

2K3 may need cygserver as well as passwd -D?

> I have rerun cron-config, rebooted, etc.

well, ok, you surelly have rebooted :-)

> I have searched the net, but most solutions seem to involve Cygwin 1.5 an=
d no cyglsa.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

done.

Cordialement,

Cyrille Lefevre
--=20
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