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Re: cron: can't switch user context
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: René Haber <rene dot haber at gmx dot de>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:08:57 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: cron: can't switch user context
- References: <162346531.20030907190616@gmx.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, René Haber wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've got Cygwin runnig on Windows 2003 and wanted to use the cron
> daemon. I installed it via
>
> cygrunsrv -I "CYGWIN crond" -p /usr/sbin/cron.exe -a -D
>
> as a NT-Service. Then I added a cronjob via "crontab -e" (I was logged
> in as Administrator)
>
> 5 * * * * echo "test" > test.txt
>
> after that, I started the cron-service and waited for the test-job to
> complete. But instead of doing the job cron complaind in the Syslog
> about
>
> Ereignisinformationen: /USR/SBIN/CRON : PID 228 : (CRON) error (can't switch user context).
>
> I checked my install via a shellscript (cron_diagnose.sh) I found in
> the Mailing-List Archiv, but it didn't find a problem.
>
> Is there a solution to this Problem or a work-around?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Rene Haber
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Igor
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