On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Remember, SYSTEM is not you.
Unless Louis XIV was a Cygwin user, in which case he might have said Le systéme, c'est moi! On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Almo <> wrote: > > Ok, it's that SYSTEM running through cygwin has no access to the disk. > > So someone else wrote the script to run in DOS, and we've dropped the idea > of scripting scheduled tasks with cygwin. Unless I can figure out how to get > SYSTEM access to the disk through it. :) Perhaps NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM should be given access rights to the appropriate directory (right click, Properties, Security). It's just an "account" like any other. I'm somewhat puzzled though. On my machine, SYSTEM has full access to C:. Is this a network drive ? Csaba -- Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple