I and several others have posted this same questions many times. AFAIK, no one has a solution yet. We are all eager to find one. Thanks.
-----Original Message----- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 2:24 AM To: Cygwin List Cc: Ryan T. Sammartino Subject: Re: cron doesn't run (was: Re: login and ssh: can't authenticate) On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:35:28PM -0800, Ryan T. Sammartino wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:37:59PM -0800, Ryan T. Sammartino wrote: > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Here's a little more info from the Event Viewer. > > cron says: > > The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /USR/SBIN/CRON ) cannot > be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry > information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote > computer. The following information is part of the event: /USR/SBIN/CRON > : Win32 Process Id = 0x288 : Cygwin Process Id = 0x288 : (ryans) CMD > (/usr/bin/echo Cron works!). > > > and then it says: > > The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /USR/SBIN/CRON ) cannot > be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry > information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote > computer. The following information is part of the event: /USR/SBIN/CRON > : Win32 Process Id = 0x288 : Cygwin Process Id = 0x288 : (CRON) error > (can't switch user context). > > > How do I fix this "can't switch user context" error? Dunno. Try the various hints on this mailing list. Is CYGWIN=ntsec? Is your /etc/group ok? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
