Thanks Michael, I have read your post and I guess, I have started cron daemon first. I have WinNT 4.0 SP6a and I was not able to delete the cron directory. I have tried rm -rf cron and I have also tried deleteing the cron directory from WinNT but I couldn't. It was saying that Access is denied or file is being used. Then I asked my WinNT adminstrator to delete the cron directory and he was able to do it with little efforts. After delete cron directory, I first did crontab -e and put a dummy entry in crontab * * * * * date > date.log and then it worked.
Sanjay -----Original Message----- From: Michael Adler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 7:50 AM To: Sanjay Gupta Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: cron problem I reported a related problem a few weeks ago and then reported a fix for this last week. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any response from the maintainers--perhaps I reported this to the wrong list... Did you start the cron daemon (as some other user?) before creating a crontab? If yes, then that other user (probably 'SYSTEM') owns /var/cron and you don't have write access. On Win2k, you can change the owner of that directory, and then add that user and give that user full control over /var/cron and /var/cron/tabs. Next time, make a crontab before starting the cron daemon. What I think should really happen is that cron should create those directories during installation so they are owned by whoever installed cygwin. Best of luck. Mike On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Sanjay Gupta wrote: > Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:31:05 -0800 > From: Sanjay Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: cron problem > > Why, I am getting the following error when creating cronjobs. > > $ crontab -e > no crontab for Administrator - using an empty one > crontab: installing new crontab > crontab: error renaming tabs/tmp.000107 to tabs/Administrator > rename: Permission denied > crontab: edits left in /tmp/crontab.107 > > Sanjay > > -- > 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/ > Mike -- 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/
