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Re: Problem with installing crontab on Cygwin(1.5.11/1005.11.0.0)/WinXP SP2


On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:34:03PM +0000, Barry Kelly wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:24:37 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet
> <pierre.humblet@ieee.org> wrote:
> >
> > crontab chowns the crontab file group to 18. Make sure that gid 18
> > is in /etc/group. Also I find it hard to believe that the strace you
> > got gives no useful information.
> 
> This did it. Group 18 (SYSTEM) was not in /etc/group; instead,
> /etc/group only contained domain groups, not local groups. I ran
> 'mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group' to recreate the file.

Glad it's fixed.

Hey Mark, care to add another test to cron_diagnose?
(see sample in postinstall/exim.sh.done)
 
Pierre

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