Re: Cron problem

[posting-list at MailAndNews dot com (Jari Aalto)]

* Thu 2001-12-20 Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com> list.cygwin
* Message-Id: <20011220220112.Y21898@cygbert.vinschen.de>
| On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:28:02PM -0500, Satya Nemana wrote:
>
>> Any info on how to make this cron work, will be of great help to us all.
>
| Just to be sure, I'm telling my setup.

Thank you Corinna, however I have exactly the same problem as the original
poster. This is the error from event viewer after:

//root@W2KPICASSO $ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e "CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec"
//root@W2KPICASSO $ mkdir /home/system 
//root@W2KPICASSO $ net start cron
The cron service is starting.
The cron service could not be started.

The service did not report an error.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3534.


    The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( cron ) cannot be
    found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry
    information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote
    computer. The following information is part of the event: cron : Win32
    Process Id = 0xBC0 : Cygwin Process Id = 0xBC0 : starting service
    `cron' failed: execv: 255, error 0.


I was missing the SYSTM from /etc/password, so Iadded the entry
by hand there and created /home/systemm as in your setup.

/var/cron/tabs/ is empty

-rw-r--r--    1 root     None          327 Sep 23 14:23 /etc/group
-rw-r--r--    1 root     None          509 Dec 24 01:49 /etc/passwd


| - cron installed with
>
|   cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e "CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec"
>
| - My /etc/passwd (partly):
>
|   root:*:0:0:,S-1-5-32-544::
|   Everyone:*:1:1:,S-1-1-0::
|   SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18:/home/system:/bin/bash
|   corinna::100:0:,S-1-5-21-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-1003:/home/corinna:/bin/tcsh
|   dummy::101:545:,S-1-5-21-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-1004:/home/dummy:/bin/bash
>
| - My /etc/group (partly):
>
|   root:S-1-5-32-544:0:
|   everyone:S-1-1-0:1:
|   SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
|   none:S-1-5-21-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-513:513:
|   users:S-1-5-32-545:545:
>
| - /etc, /etc/passwd and /etc/group world readable.
>
| - ls -laR /var/cron
>
|   /var/cron:
|   total 0
|   drwxrwxrwt    3 corinna  root            0 Jul 10 11:51 .
|   drwxr-xr-x    6 dummy    users           0 Mar  8  2001 ..
|   drwxrwxrwt    2 corinna  root            0 Sep 19 19:00 tabs

Hm. How did you made ugo+rwx . ? In my system, logged in as Administrator,
the permissions still staty as:


//root@W2KPICASSO /var/cron $ chmod ugo+rwx .
//root@W2KPICASSO /var/cron $ ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     None            0 Jul 11 12:27 .
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     None            0 Feb 10  2001 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     None            0 Jul 11 12:27 tabs

|   /var/cron/tabs:
|   total 2
|   drwxrwxrwt    2 corinna  root            0 Sep 19 19:00 .
|   drwxrwxrwt    3 corinna  root            0 Jul 10 11:51 ..
|   -rw-r-----    1 dummy    SYSTEM        225 Sep 19 19:00 dummy
|   -rw-r-----    1 corinna  SYSTEM        230 Sep 19 18:58 corinna
>
|   `corinna' is an admin account, `dummy' is a standard user.
>
| Cron works fine for both accounts, corinna as well as dummy.
>
| I don't know what's your problem is.  I can just suggest to debug
| your installation.

Further debug instrustion where to look next are welcome.
is it possible to run cron at the foregroung with strace or
something in order to see why it fails?

Jari


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