> I believe the problem was in the user accounts I have > setup on my windows box. I have both a domain > account <domain name>\rdavies, and a machine > account <machine name>\rdavies. I'll spare you the > reasons why. While I had stopped and deleted the > service cron with cygrunsrv, I had never tried to > install and start the service using the 2 steps. > When I tried, the -u rdavies flag actually picked > up the machine not domain user. And it wouldn't start. > > I deleted the machine user (assigned to group none, > and not likely to get any use anyway) and then > reconfigured with cron-configure. Poof! I now > have a new line every minute in the goofy log > file I was testing with. Thanks for your help.
If you are able to think of a test that can be added to cron_diagnose.sh, please post it on this mail list. It sounds like there should be a test to see whether the user's ID is "valid for cron", by some definition. --- -- 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/
