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Re: Similar Cron issue--Cron wont do anything
----- Original Message -----
From: "LAU2"
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: Similar Cron issue--Cron wont do anything
| Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > From: "LAU2"
| > To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
| > Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:04 PM
| >
| > |
| > | Hi I have been having similar problems with running cron on through
| > cygwin.
| > |
| > | Here is what I have done so far:
| > |
| > | 1) created a simple shell file <create_new_dir.sh>
| > |
| > <snip>|
| > | 5) checked the /var/log/cron and here is what it said
| > |
| > | unable to set groups for myusername
| > |
| > |
| > | Any thoughts?
| > ****************
| > 1) was cron installed with cron-config ?
| > 2) run "cronbug" and send us the output (attach)
| > 3) the message indicates a failure in setgrp or initgroups. That's
| > unusual.
| > Is your /etc/group up to date?
| >
||
| Answers
|
| 1) yes. No problems
|
| 2) see attached http://www.nabble.com/file/p23197369/cronbug.txt cronbug.txt
|
| 3) This may be my problem. I can't find /etc/group in my directories. (I
| apologize I am new to cygwin)
|
| I should have mentioned this earlier but I am using windows vista, which
| from the cronbug file i see it says not supported.
|
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- I am mystified by cygcheck saying
"Windows Longhorn/Vista (not yet supported!) "
- The cronbug file looks truncated. The last line I see is
118k 2008/05/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygexpat-1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
The current cygwin dll and the installed services do not appear.
Did you interrupt cronbug?
- At the time you ran cronbug, you had no crontab file.
So we can't check that aspect.
- The cron log indicates failure due to "can't switch user context"
Yet cron is running as yourself (Langdon, uid 1002), so that shouldn't be an issue :(
- You should be able to "ls -l /etc/group /etc/passwd"
Make sure they are readable by all and that Landon appears only once in /etc/passwd
Pierre
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