Hello and Happy New Year. Would it be possible to see your altered /etc/passwd? I must be doing something wrong. I've made my user have uid 18, put his entry before SYSTEM, and I still get the same 1062 error when starting the cron service as that user.
I've been banging my head against the wall on the cron-job-accessing-network-shares problem for a couple days now :) I'm glad I found this thread, it's given me some hope. Can anyone verify that they've got this trick/hack to work in the current version of cygwin cron? Thanks in advance, Alan ------------ > Right. Looks like 18 is hardwired in cron. > So after you create that user and update the /etc/passwd file you would need to edit > /etc/password and change the uid of the user to 18. With a little bit of luck > the setuid(18) will be a noop. > Try keeping the SYSTEM uid to 18, too, for now. It's probably hardwired too. > My head is spinning and I don't have the time to sort through all the implications. ok, changing the uid to 18 in the passwd file did it. thanks a lot! thanks to all the Cygwin developers, it's a fantastic tool! --tim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
