> -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owne at cygwin.com on Behalf Of Denis > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 21:39 > > I'm trying unsuccesfully to get cron to work under 64-bit cywin under Win7 > Pro. First, I tried running as myself (running cygwin with system > administrator privilege): > > $ cron-config > Do you want to install the cron daemon as a service? (yes/no) yes Enter the > value of CYGWIN for the daemon: [ ] > > Do you want the cron daemon to run as yourself? (yes/no) yes > > WARNING: User dkertz appears 2 times in /etc/passwd. > This may confuse the system > Edit /etc/passwd and assign unique user ids. > <snip>
> From the above you can see the warning about my login appearing twice in > /etc/passwd: > > $ grep dkertz /etc/passwd > dkertz:unused:1003:513:dkertz,U-USNAVN0D011H46\dkertz, > S-1-5-21-2470246883-414681431-158823764-1003:/home/dkertz:/bin/bash > dkertz:unused:295587:10513:U-NA02\dkertz, > S-1-5-21-2112754840-354624142-596004286- > 285587:/home/dkertz:/bin/bash > > USNAVN0D011H46 is the PC machine name and NA02 is the domain set up by > corporate IT. Does this suggest IT has messed up? I log into the PC using the > na02\dkertz login. > > Thinking this login duplication might be the problem, I changed /etc/passwd > to contain only the first login and then only the second login with the same > results - logon failure when running cron-config. > <snip> > > Now the cron runs but a scheduled cron job doesn't run and this is what the > cronevents shows: > > 2014/08/15 19:41:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 4692: (dkertz) WRONG > FILE OWNER (tabs/dkertz) > There is no doubt that your problems are caused by the duplicate entry. There is no enough info to explain everything but note that according to http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-02/msg00306.html when an entry can't be found in /etc/passwd it is now autogenerated. So I suggest that you try the following to sort things out better: - restore the original /etc/passwd with the 2 dkertz - manually edit /etc/passwd and rename one of them, for example one of them to NA02_dkertz - if you have renamed the dkertz you have login with, log out of Cygwin and start a new shell - make sure the crontab in /var/cron/tabs/ has the name of and is owned by the dkertz you want, and is readable by administrators - try starting cron again. If starting as yourself, make sure you are the one who owns the crontab. Sorry I can't help more, but I don' have a 64 bit system nor easy access to a domain account and I have not kept track with the way Cygwin maps user names. Pierre -- 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
