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Re: [ cron/crontab ] someone using cron on cygwin?


On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:47:39PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen schrieb am 2001-05-04, 10:19:
> 
> > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:38:47AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> > > Dear Corinna,
> > > 
> > > $ crontab
> > > crontab: can't obtain passwd entry.
> > 
> > You don't have a /etc/passwd entry for your user account.
> > crontab tries to get your passwd entry by calling
> > 
> > 	struct passwd *pw = getpwuid (geteuid ());
> > 
> > So check your user id (/bin/id) and add an entry for your
> > user id to /etc/passwd. Or, even better, call mkpasswd to
> > recreate /etc/passwd.
> > 
> 
> I recreated it a dozen times:
> 
> siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~
> $ crontab
> crontab: can't obtain passwd entry.
> 
> siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~
> $ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> 
> siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~
> $ crontab
> crontab: can't obtain passwd entry.
> 
> from passwd:
> Siebenschlaefer::500:513:Gerrit Haase,S-1-5-21-2027841136-734554988-996637233-500:/home/siebenschlaefer:/bin/bash
> 
> siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~
> $ id
> uid=500(siebenschlaefer) gid=544(Administratoren) groups=544(Administratoren),544(Administratoren)

You will have to debug that.

Corinna

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