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cron doesn't run (was: Re: login and ssh: can't authenticate)
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:10:58PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> UID 18 is reserved for SYSTEM. You can't get user authentication
> working for your account just by giving yourself uid 18. Run sshd
> as service under LocalSystem account. Revert your /etc/passwd to
> use UID 18 for SYSTEM. cron needs the same setting, btw.
Great! Now I can ssh into my system... thanks Corinna.
Unfortunately, now cron seems to be broken:
>From /etc/passwd:
ryans:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:12136:10513:Ryan T.
Sammartino,U-*****\ryans,S-1-5-******:/home/ryans:/bin/bash
ps -a says:
848 1 848 848 con 12136 13:19:09 /usr/bin/bash
1580 1 1580 1580 ? 18 13:27:19 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
484 1580 1580 1484 ? 18 13:27:19 /usr/sbin/cron
1616 1 1616 1616 ? 18 13:28:08 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
984 1616 1616 1088 ? 18 13:28:08 /usr/sbin/sshd
My crontab has:
MAILTO=rsammartino@ea.com
30 13 * * * notepad
but, 1:30 PM came and went, and no notepad popped up. Nothing else I
stick in there seems to work either, including simple "echo Cron works!"
type stuff (and yes, I do have ssmtp configured correctly).
I started cron with
cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
cygrunsrv --start cron
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
Ryan T. Sammartino (ryants@shaw.ca)
http://members.shaw.ca/ryants/
A man can have two, maybe three love affairs while he's married. After
that it's cheating.
-- Yves Montand
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