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RE: another cron problem - permission denied
- From: "Harig, Mark A." <maharig at idirect dot net>
- To: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>,"cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:10:05 -0400
- Subject: RE: another cron problem - permission denied
Which version of cron are you running?
At least part of the problem is the permission of the files in
/var/cron.
1. Please read /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README, in particular:
>
>3.0.1-6:
>--------
>
>Add a postinstall script which creates the /var/cron and /var/cron/tabs
>directories appropriately.
>
>3.0.1-5:
>--------
>
>Crontab now changes group membership to be SYSTEM on the crontab
>files and sets the permissions to 640. That should allow cron
>to work immediately with the crontab files created by crontab.
>Note that this requires that /etc/group has been created and
>contains the default SYSTEM entry, gid 18. DON'T CHANGE THAT!
2. You should have a file named 'cron.sh.done' in the directory
/etc/postinstall.
You might try removing your /var/cron directory tree and then running
that file/script. If you don't have it, here is a copy:
#!/bin/sh
set -x
if [ ! -d /var/cron ]
then
mkdir -p /var/cron
fi
chmod 1777 /var/cron
if [ ! -d /var/cron/tabs ]
then
mkdir /var/cron/tabs
fi
chmod 1777 /var/cron/tabs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Habacker [mailto:Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de]
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 6:10 AM
> To: cygwin
> Subject: another cron problem - permission denied
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have done a fresh cygwin minimal installation on a winnt
> workstation with cron
> and ssmtp.
> Then I've tried to install a crontab with crontab -e. After
> saving the file,
> crontab gives the following messages:
>
> $ crontab -e
> no crontab for administrator - using an empty one
> crontab: installing new crontab
> crontab: error renaming tabs/tmp.000614 to tabs/administrator
> rename: Permission denied
> crontab: edits left in /tmp/crontab.614
>
> Because I know that cygwin 1.3.12 uses a more stricter right
> handling, I've made
> sure that the User are in /etc/passwd, but I really does not
> know what the
> reason is for this.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Ralf
>
>
>
> $cat /etc/passwd
> Jeder:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
> SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
> Administratoren:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
> admin:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1003:513:U-MOSKAU\admin,S-1-5-21-20
> 70571487-181613977
> 0-162667069-1003:/home/admin:/bin/bash
> Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-MOSKAU\Administra
> tor,S-1-5-21-20705
> 71487-1816139770-162667069-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
> admin:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1004:513:U-MOSKAU\dbadmin,S-1-5-21-
> 2070571487-1816139
> 770-162667069-1004:/home/dbadmin:/bin/bash
> Gast:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-MOSKAU\Gast,S-1-5-21-20705
> 71487-1816139770-1
> 62667069-501:/home/Gast:/bin/bash
>
> $ cat /etc/group
> Jeder:S-1-1-0:0:
> SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
> Kein:S-1-5-21-2070571487-1816139770-162667069-513:513:
> Administratoren:S-1-5-32-544:544:
> Benutzer:S-1-5-32-545:545:
> Gäste:S-1-5-32-546:546:
> Hauptbenutzer:S-1-5-32-547:547:
> Replikations-Operator:S-1-5-32-552:552:
> Sicherungs-Operatoren:S-1-5-32-551:551:
> informix:S-1-5-21-2070571487-1816139770-162667069-1007:1007:
> ORA_DBA:S-1-5-21-2070571487-1816139770-162667069-1000:1000:
>
> $ find /var/cron -exec ls -nl {} \;
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x 2 500 513 4096 Aug 2 12:14 tabs
> total 6
> -rw-r--r-- 1 500 513 207 Aug 2 12:14 tmp.000508
> -rw-r--r-- 1 500 513 206 Aug 2 12:08 tmp.000587
> -rw-r--r-- 1 500 513 206 Aug 2 11:01 tmp.000597
> -rw-r--r-- 1 500 513 206 Aug 2 11:02 tmp.000600
> -rw-r--r-- 1 500 513 206 Aug 2 11:55 tmp.000603
> -rw-r--r-- 1 500 513 206 Aug 2 11:58 tmp.000614
> -rw-r--r-- 1 500 513 207 Aug 2 12:14
> /var/cron/tabs/tmp.000508
> -rw-r--r-- 1 500 513 206 Aug 2 12:08
> /var/cron/tabs/tmp.000587
> -rw-r--r-- 1 500 513 206 Aug 2 11:01
> /var/cron/tabs/tmp.000597
> -rw-r--r-- 1 500 513 206 Aug 2 11:02
> /var/cron/tabs/tmp.000600
> -rw-r--r-- 1 500 513 206 Aug 2 11:55
> /var/cron/tabs/tmp.000603
> -rw-r--r-- 1 500 513 206 Aug 2 11:58
> /var/cron/tabs/tmp.000614
>
> $ cygcheck -c
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package Version
> _update-info-dir 00037-1
> ash 20020131-1
> bash 2.05b-1
> cron 3.0.1-7
> cygrunsrv 0.95-1
> cygwin 1.3.12-2
> diff 1.0-1
> diffutils 2.8.1-1
> fileutils 4.1-1
> findutils 4.1.7-4
> gawk 3.0.4-1
> gdbm 1.8.0-4
> grep 2.5-1
> gzip 1.3.3-3
> libintl1 0.10.40-1
> libncurses5 5.2-1
> libncurses6 5.2-8
> libreadline4 4.1-2
> libreadline5 4.3-1
> login 1.4-3
> ncurses 5.2-8
> pcre 3.7-1
> readline 4.3-1
> sed 3.02-1
> sh-utils 2.0-2
> ssmtp 2.38.7-3
> tar 1.13.19-1
> termcap 20020403-1
> terminfo 5.2-3
> texinfo 4.2-3
> textutils 2.0.21-1
> vim 6.1-2
> which 1.5-1
> zlib 1.1.4-1
>
>
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