On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:57:27PM -0800, Jay Patel wrote: > CYGWIN_NT-5.2 hal 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686 unknown > unknown Cygwin > > Logged in as Administrator I have installed the cron service with: > cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a '-D' -e CYGWIN="tty ntsec > binmode" -d "CYGWIN cron" > > The process is running, but my cron jobs for Administrator are not being > run. > > I have changed the group for /var/run and /etc/cron.d to 18 (SYSTEM) and > both directories have 1777 permissions. I also have setup a simple test > to run every minute to see if it's working: > > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/home/Administrator/test.txt installed on Thu Jan 20 17:44:39 2005) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41 corinna Exp $) > * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /home/Administrator/test.log > > I'm guessing it's a permissions problem or some Windows user related > issue. Any help in figuring this out is appreciated. I have attached > the cygcheck results as requested by the cron_diagnose.sh script I've > been using to figure out what's going on. Thanks. Yes, and a privilege issue.
There is now a cron-config script that should do the right thing, although it has not been tested on Win2003... Please try it and report any issues. Pierre -- 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/
