> -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Crawford > Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 2:17 AM > > Hello everyone, > Thanks for a great offering and all the help you provide. I've > used cygwin for a few years, but not deeply. cron is one of the tools I > find very handy. Recently I upgraded to Windows 10 and ran in to > problems on my Surface Pro 3. I installed cygwin cron (latest cygwin > 32bit (2.873). Cron is 4.1-63.) and it seemed to work but as soon as I > switched > my laptop to use the Microsoft ID cron as Microsoft suggest, > cron stopped working, complaining that it can not switch id's. If I do > a fresh install of Win10, switch to the Microsoft ID, and install cygwin > and cron, cron won't even work once. And if I do a fresh install of > Win10 and never switch to the Microsoft id, cygwin cron works fine. > When it fails, the cronevents log file complains that it can't switch user > id's. > > I really don't do much. I just install cygwin with cron, emacs, ssh, > inetutils, > unison, wget. Then I start up a cygwin window as > administrator. Then cron-config, yes (service), [] (blank CYGWIN), > yes (self), yes (start daemon). Then I create a trivial cron file "*/1 > * * * * date >~/cron_is_running.txt". crontab mycron ... and I > wait a minute. Then I invoke cronevents. > > I want to try out all the features of that Microsoft touts as coming with use > of > the Microsoft ID, but I don't want to lose cron. > > What do we all suggest that I do next?
Is that only with Cron or also with other services such as passwordless sshd? Unfortunately I have no Windows 10 nor Microsoft ID to test. Pierre cron maintainer -- 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
