----- Original Message ----- From: "René Berber" <> To: <> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:00 AM Subject: Re: cron
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: [snip] > | On W2K3, if you expect a service to be able to switch user contexts, you > | need a special service account. You can use the 'sshd_server' account that > | would be created for you if you configure 'sshd' and ask it to create the > | account when it asks you. See the "/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README" > | for details. > > The above is correct, but later cron was switch to run as PolsonA Wrong, the log just shows that the user edited his crontab (i.e. did a `crontab -e`) which does a reload on exit. Larry's diagnostic is right, cron shouldn't be running as the user PolsonA. > 2007/09/12 16:19:31 [PolsonA] cron: PID 1432: `cron' service started > 2007/09/12 16:19:41 [PolsonA] crontab: PID 2844: (PolsonA) BEGIN EDIT > (PolsonA) > 2007/09/12 16:19:46 [PolsonA] crontab: PID 2844: (PolsonA) REPLACE (PolsonA) > 2007/09/12 16:19:46 [PolsonA] crontab: PID 2844: (PolsonA) END EDIT (PolsonA) > 2007/09/12 16:20:01 [PolsonA] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 2564: (PolsonA) RELOAD > (tabs/PolsonA) ************** The reload is done by /usr/sbin/cron itself on the next minute after the crontab -e exit, see the last entry above. There is nothing bad about running cron as yourself if you are the only cron user on a machine. 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/
