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Re: cron problems with windows 2003 server
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:28:01 -0500
- Subject: Re: cron problems with windows 2003 server
- References: <41F06187.5050104@hotmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:57:27PM -0800, Jay Patel wrote:
> CYGWIN_NT-5.2 hal 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686 unknown
> unknown Cygwin
>
> Logged in as Administrator I have installed the cron service with:
> cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a '-D' -e CYGWIN="tty ntsec
> binmode" -d "CYGWIN cron"
>
> The process is running, but my cron jobs for Administrator are not being
> run.
>
> I have changed the group for /var/run and /etc/cron.d to 18 (SYSTEM) and
> both directories have 1777 permissions. I also have setup a simple test
> to run every minute to see if it's working:
>
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/home/Administrator/test.txt installed on Thu Jan 20 17:44:39 2005)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41 corinna Exp $)
> * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /home/Administrator/test.log
>
> I'm guessing it's a permissions problem or some Windows user related
> issue. Any help in figuring this out is appreciated. I have attached
> the cygcheck results as requested by the cron_diagnose.sh script I've
> been using to figure out what's going on. Thanks.
Yes, and a privilege issue.
There is now a cron-config script that should do the right thing, although
it has not been tested on Win2003...
Please try it and report any issues.
Pierre
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