----- Original Message ----- From: "LAU2" To: <cygwin@cygwin.com> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:39 AM Subject: Re: Similar Cron issue--Cron wont do anything
| Pierre A. Humblet wrote: | > ----- Original Message ----- | > From: "LAU2" | > To: <cygwin@cygwin.com> | > Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:04 PM | > | > | | > | Hi I have been having similar problems with running cron on through | > cygwin. | > | | > | Here is what I have done so far: | > | | > | 1) created a simple shell file <create_new_dir.sh> | > | | > <snip>| | > | 5) checked the /var/log/cron and here is what it said | > | | > | unable to set groups for myusername | > | | > | | > | Any thoughts? | > **************** | > 1) was cron installed with cron-config ? | > 2) run "cronbug" and send us the output (attach) | > 3) the message indicates a failure in setgrp or initgroups. That's | > unusual. | > Is your /etc/group up to date? | > || | Answers | | 1) yes. No problems | | 2) see attached http://www.nabble.com/file/p23197369/cronbug.txt cronbug.txt | | 3) This may be my problem. I can't find /etc/group in my directories. (I | apologize I am new to cygwin) | | I should have mentioned this earlier but I am using windows vista, which | from the cronbug file i see it says not supported. | *********************************** - I am mystified by cygcheck saying "Windows Longhorn/Vista (not yet supported!) " - The cronbug file looks truncated. The last line I see is 118k 2008/05/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygexpat-1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 The current cygwin dll and the installed services do not appear. Did you interrupt cronbug? - At the time you ran cronbug, you had no crontab file. So we can't check that aspect. - The cron log indicates failure due to "can't switch user context" Yet cron is running as yourself (Langdon, uid 1002), so that shouldn't be an issue :( - You should be able to "ls -l /etc/group /etc/passwd" Make sure they are readable by all and that Landon appears only once in /etc/passwd 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/
