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Re: cron ignores my settings
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 08:54:12AM -0400, Devin McRorie wrote:
>
> I'm having a devil of a time getting cron to do anything under cygwin. Is
> there a way to do diagnostics, or see cron error info or check how cron is
> setup to figure out why it isn't working?
>
> I am logged in as Administrator on a Windows 2000 machine. I use crontab
> -e to put in a task. The task is:
>
> 40 08 * * * /u/srcmail/sh/runmc
>
> Of course the header information is all about not editing the crontab file
> directly. I left that out since we've all seen it. I've even tried
> setting the runmc script with chmod +x which doesn't seem to do anything as
> ls still shows it has no execute privilege. Please note that the runmc
> script does execute and work properly when I call it manually! So the
> problem is probably with cron or the cygwin setup.
>
> I really appreciate your help!
Perhaps cron isn't able to switch user context. Check both,
your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, use mkpasswd and mkgroup
to regenerate them if needed. Try using the latest developer
snapshot of Cygwin.
Corinna
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