On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Barry Kelly wrote:
> I'm getting the following error when trying to install a crontab on my
> account:
>
> $ crontab -e
> # editing my crontab here...
> chown: Invalid argument
>
> I've tried updating my passwd (I live on a Win2K server domain) file
> in case it was out of date
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:13:13AM -0500, Harig, Mark wrote:
> > >
> > > This did it. Group 18 (SYSTEM) was not in /etc/group; instead,
> > > /etc/group only contained domain groups, not local groups. I ran
> > > 'mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group' to recreate the file.
> >
> > Glad it's fixed.
> >
> >
> >
> > This did it. Group 18 (SYSTEM) was not in /etc/group; instead,
> > /etc/group only contained domain groups, not local groups. I ran
> > 'mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group' to recreate the file.
>
> Glad it's fixed.
>
> Hey Mark, care to add another test to cron_diagnose?
> (see sample in postin
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:34:03PM +, Barry Kelly wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:24:37 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > crontab chowns the crontab file group to 18. Make sure that gid 18
> > is in /etc/group. Also I find it hard to believe that the strace you
> > go
>
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:24:37 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > crontab chowns the crontab file group to 18. Make sure that gid 18
> > is in /etc/group. Also I find it hard to believe that the strace you
> > got gives no useful information.
>
> This did it. Group 1
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:24:37 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> crontab chowns the crontab file group to 18. Make sure that gid 18
> is in /etc/group. Also I find it hard to believe that the strace you
> got gives no useful information.
This did it. Group 18 (SYSTEM) was not in
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:13:55AM +, Barry Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:33:57 -0500, Harig, Mark wrote:
> > I (Barry Kelly) wrote:
> > > I'm getting the following error when trying to install a
> > > crontab on my account:
> > >
> > > $ crontab -e
> > > # editing my crontab here...
> >
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:33:57 -0500, Harig, Mark wrote:
> I (Barry Kelly) wrote:
> > I'm getting the following error when trying to install a
> > crontab on my account:
> >
> > $ crontab -e
> > # editing my crontab here...
> > chown: Invalid argument
>
> Please run this diagnostic script. It will a
>
> I'm getting the following error when trying to install a
> crontab on my account:
>
> $ crontab -e
> # editing my crontab here...
> chown: Invalid argument
>
Please run this diagnostic script. It will attempt to locate
many types of common problems with cron on cygwin.
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