On 29/12/2024 at 00:20, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote:
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:07:10 +
Chris Elvidge wrote:
I have a directory of files that I need the contained executables run
from CRON. (Like run-parts.)
I have found that since 25/12/2024, when run from CRON, it doesn't
differen
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:07:10 +
Chris Elvidge wrote:
> I have a directory of files that I need the contained executables run
> from CRON. (Like run-parts.)
>
> I have found that since 25/12/2024, when run from CRON, it doesn't
> differentiate between executable and non-e
I have a directory of files that I need the contained executables run
from CRON. (Like run-parts.)
I have found that since 25/12/2024, when run from CRON, it doesn't
differentiate between executable and non-executable files. I.e. tries to
run the non-executables. It ran correctly on
On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 02:07:08PM +, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 09/12/2023 21:55, Adam Dinwoodie via Cygwin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been trying to set up Cygwin cron to work as a service on my work
> > PC. I'm able to get it working just fine on a
On 09/12/2023 21:55, Adam Dinwoodie via Cygwin wrote:
Hi,
I've been trying to set up Cygwin cron to work as a service on my work
PC. I'm able to get it working just fine on a Windows system where I'm
using a personal Microsoft account, but when I attempt the same process
usi
On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 09:22:12AM -0700, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
> On 2023-12-09 14:55, Adam Dinwoodie via Cygwin wrote:
> > I've been trying to set up Cygwin cron to work as a service on my work
> > PC. I'm able to get it working just fine on a Windows sys
On 2023-12-09 14:55, Adam Dinwoodie via Cygwin wrote:
I've been trying to set up Cygwin cron to work as a service on my work
PC. I'm able to get it working just fine on a Windows system where I'm
using a personal Microsoft account, but when I attempt the same process
using on a
Hi,
I've been trying to set up Cygwin cron to work as a service on my work
PC. I'm able to get it working just fine on a Windows system where I'm
using a personal Microsoft account, but when I attempt the same process
using on a Windows system using my work account, I get the
I got this running. In the hope that it may help others, I give some details
here.
It turned out that I was on the right track - it *was* the space in my Windows
username which was making cron complain. The simple addition of a (basically
completely fake but plausible) MAILTO line in the
Hi Brian:
Thank you for your response.
On 23/05/2023 17:44, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2023-05-23 13:46, Jonathan Clark via Cygwin wrote:
First off, many thanks to everyone who is putting in time and effort in making
cygwin as wonderful as it is.
I'm trying to get what I think is a simple
On 2023-05-23 13:46, Jonathan Clark via Cygwin wrote:
First off, many thanks to everyone who is putting in time and effort in making
cygwin as wonderful as it is.
I'm trying to get what I think is a simple cron job working. So far all I've
gotten is frustrated and confused. I'm
Hi there:
First off, many thanks to everyone who is putting in time and effort in making
cygwin as wonderful as it is.
I'm trying to get what I think is a simple cron job working. So far all I've
gotten is frustrated and confused. I'm sure I'm doing something stupid
(pr
On 2021-07-19 11:40, Jeremy Hetzler via Cygwin wrote:
Upon installing Cygwin and cron on a new Windows Server 2019 machine,
we are unable to get cron to work.
I installed cron using cron-config. Cron is configured to run under
account cyg_server, which cron-config set up. cron-config reported
ntially at regular intervals (daily,weekly,monthly)
# Concept taken from Debian, copied from RHEL-5, modified for Cygwin.
# See end for "How to run cron jobs with elevated privs on Cygwin".
### Set ENV to run under Windows Task Scheduler ###
export SHELL=/bin/bash
export PATH=/sbin:/bi
e was changed to use LocalSystem account and some new(-ish)
facilities only available in Windows 7 and up to rebuild auth user token
without using CygLSA or what not.
This affecting SSHD, Cron and any other Cygwin daemon dealing with user
authorization.
>> We would be very glad if you could
On 2021-04-27 04:37, Peter Pfannenschmid wrote:
However, today we have run into an issue with cron. Please see the attached logs
for details.
Additional notes:
- O/S is Windows Server 2019 Standard x64
- The cyg_server user has been created by cron-config, and we didn't change
anythi
Dear ladies and gentlemen,
thank you very much for providing the Cygwin DLL and ecosystem. We are using it
since many years without any problem.
However, today we have run into an issue with cron. Please see the attached
logs for details.
Additional notes:
- O/S is Windows Server 2019
error; please reply so we are aware and
delete it.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 3:05 PM
To: Anantha.Kumar
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cron installation issue
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 11:13 AM Anantha.Kumar wrote:
>
> Hi Team,
>
> Do you have any advice on this failure.
Again:
You must run service config scripts from an elevated admin shell.
It seems very simple to me. Or do you not understand its meaning ?
Regards
Marco
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From: Anantha.Kumar
Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 5:47 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com ; brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca
Subject: Re: Cron installation issue
Hi Brain,
Yes, I was trying to run through admin shell but still facing this issue.
Thanks,
Anantha Kumar
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On 2020-08-28 03:35, Anantha.Kumar wrote:
> I am facing some issue while installing cron as a windows service. I have
> attached the error message and cronbug output. Could you please help us on
> this issue?
> Do you want to start the cron daemon as a service now? (yes/no) yes
Hi Team,
I am facing some issue while installing cron as a windows service. I have
attached the error message and cronbug output. Could you please help us on this
issue?
/home/_PSCGRM.ABInitioTst> cron-config
Cron is already installed as a service under account DEVINT\_PSCGRM.ABInitioTst.
On 2019-07-10 16:15, David Karr wrote:
>>> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:20 AM Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> > On 2019-07-10 10:55, David Karr wrote:
>>> > > I've checked the user guide and the FAQ, and I can't find
>&g
On 2019-07-13 01:59, Henning wrote:
> On 12/07/2019 17:20, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> Do not forget to *ALWAYS* shut down all Cygwin services before running
>> setup to upgrade any Cygwin packages.
> Does this mean to also shut down cygserver before running setup?
Yes - it's linked to cygwin1.dll.
On 12/07/2019 17:20, Brian Inglis wrote:
Do not forget to *ALWAYS* shut down all Cygwin services before running setup to
upgrade any Cygwin packages.
Does this mean to also shut down cygserver before running setup?
Henning
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> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:20 AM Brian Inglis wrote:
> > > On 2019-07-10 10:55, David Karr wrote:
> > > > I've checked the user guide and the FAQ, and I can't find
> > any
> > information
> >
On 2019-07-10 10:55, David Karr wrote:
> > > I've checked the user guide and the FAQ, and I can't find any
> information
> > > about how to start cron and verify that it's working. I found
> other blog
>
On 7/11/2019 5:57 PM, René Berber wrote:
> parameter in the installation as service ("-L 1" in the cygrunsrv line
Sorry this is not clear.
I should have writen something like 'cygrunsrv -I ... -a "-L 1" ...'
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On 7/11/2019 4:20 PM, David Karr wrote:
>>>> How do I add service dependencies to start up in a particular order?
>>>
>>> In an elevated cmd or bash shell:
>>> elevated > OR # sc config syslog-ng depend= cygserver
>>> elevated > OR # sc confi
> On Jul 11, 2019, at 4:18 PM, David Karr wrote:
>
> I typically try to avoid top-posting, but I'm pretty sure I won't be able
> to do anything about the mailer configuration.
Then you'll need to fix it manually, like I just did on yours. Whichever it is,
please
stop including email addresses in
I've checked the user guide and the FAQ, and I can't find any
>> information
>> > > about how to start cron and verify that it's working. I found
>> other blog
>> > > posts on other sites, but some of them are old.
>> >
>&
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 1:23 PM Vince Rice
wrote:
> > On Jul 11, 2019, at 3:12 PM, Vince Rice wrote:
> >
> >> On Jul 11, 2019, at 2:56 PM, David Karr wrote:
> >>
> >> It's curious that when I bring up the default "Packages" view, filtering
> >> for "syslog-ng" doesn't find anything. I had to swi
> On Jul 11, 2019, at 3:12 PM, Vince Rice wrote:
>
>> On Jul 11, 2019, at 2:56 PM, David Karr wrote:
>>
>> It's curious that when I bring up the default "Packages" view, filtering
>> for "syslog-ng" doesn't find anything. I had to switch to the Categories
>> view, and then filtering for that fou
> On Jul 11, 2019, at 2:56 PM, David Karr wrote:
>
> It's curious that when I bring up the default "Packages" view, filtering
> for "syslog-ng" doesn't find anything. I had to switch to the Categories
> view, and then filtering for that found it.
Not that curious. Setup's search is searching pac
ab.ca> wrote:
> On 2019-07-10 16:15, David Karr wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:20 AM Brian Inglis wrote:
> > On 2019-07-10 10:55, David Karr wrote:
> > > I've checked the user guide and the FAQ, and I can't find any
> information
> >
On 2019-07-10 16:15, David Karr wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:20 AM Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2019-07-10 10:55, David Karr wrote:
> > I've checked the user guide and the FAQ, and I can't find any
> information
> > about how to start cron and ver
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:20 AM Brian Inglis <
brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote:
> On 2019-07-10 10:55, David Karr wrote:
> > I've checked the user guide and the FAQ, and I can't find any information
> > about how to start cron and verify that it's worki
On 2019-07-10 10:55, David Karr wrote:
> I've checked the user guide and the FAQ, and I can't find any information
> about how to start cron and verify that it's working. I found other blog
> posts on other sites, but some of them are old.
Did you run service setup script
I've checked the user guide and the FAQ, and I can't find any information
about how to start cron and verify that it's working. I found other blog
posts on other sites, but some of them are old.
I had installed cron, and I thought it was working, but now I think that it
is
On 1/15/2018 2:48 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:
> Bit of a conundrum here. Running WIN7 and cygwin64. Have the terminal
> running and Perl is installed and runs. AFAIK, that all works. Used
> cygrunsrv to get cron going.
Not sure if I remember this right, but there is a cron-config in th
On 2018-01-15 13:48, Chris Johnson wrote:
> Bit of a conundrum here. Running WIN7 and cygwin64. Have the terminal
> running
> and Perl is installed and runs. AFAIK, that all works. Used cygrunsrv to get
> cron going. I can see cron in a ps -af in the terminal. I set up a crontab
Bit of a conundrum here. Running WIN7 and cygwin64. Have the terminal
running and Perl is installed and runs. AFAIK, that all works. Used
cygrunsrv to get cron going. I can see cron in a ps -af in the
terminal. I set up a crontab for my user and it's in /var/cron/tabs by
using cront
Anyone?
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Is the current version of cron and cron-config broken? I tried
installing cron (4.1-65) with the latest version of cygwin in Windows
10 x64 Pro
When I run the following bash script to attempt to configure cron:
cron-config << EOF
yes
ntsec
no
no
no
adminpass
adminpass
yes
EOF
I g
> Hello,
>
> I have set up cron as below on a fresh Windows 10 with a fresh,
> minimal 64-bit Cygwin installation. Cronjobs are not executed and
cronevents says /usr/sbin/cron:
> PID 608: (CRON) error (can't switch user context). The output of
> cronbug
is attached.
>
&g
> -Original Message-
> From: Stefan Götz
> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 12:55 AM
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have set up cron as below on a fresh Windows 10 with a fresh,
> minimal 64-bit Cygwin installation. Cronjobs are not executed and
cronevents says /usr/
Hello,
I’ve set up cron as below on a fresh Windows 10 with a fresh, minimal 64-bit
Cygwin installation. Cronjobs are not executed and cronevents says
/usr/sbin/cron:
PID 608: (CRON) error (can't switch user context). The output of cronbug is
attached.
When I run the service not und
a problem with getting
cygwin/cron to function within the windows structure.)
However, sometimes you get lucky even though you don't quite know what you are
doing. Having given up on being able to run Excel from a cron I started
investigating running a bash script via the windows task s
> On 06/23/2015 09:39 AM, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR ** wrote:
> > I changed the cron setup to use cygserver as Corinna suggested. I used
> > cron-config and cygserver-config to setup the cron and cygserver services
> > and passwd -R to establish my password. Normal cro
On 06/23/2015 09:39 AM, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR ** wrote:
I changed the cron setup to use cygserver as Corinna suggested. I used
cron-config and cygserver-config to setup the cron and cygserver services
and passwd -R to establish my password. Normal cron jobs run under this
setup but Excel
I changed the cron setup to use cygserver as Corinna suggested. I used
cron-config and cygserver-config to setup the cron and cygserver services and
passwd -R to establish my password. Normal cron jobs run under this setup but
Excel still hangs as it did before. I also tried this on the Win7
wrote:
> We are running cron under the specific cygwin login (not cyg_server).
> Presumably there is a solution to this problem. We have 3 Win7 Pro PCs
> and this works on one of the PCs (unfortunately, not the one where we need
> it to
> work) and fails on the other two PCs.
The
On 06/17/2015 12:55 PM, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR ** wrote:
We are running cron under the specific cygwin login (not cyg_server).
Presumably there is a solution to this problem. We have 3 Win7 Pro PCs
and this works on one of the PCs (unfortunately, not the one where we need it
to
work) and
We are running cron under the specific cygwin login (not cyg_server).
Presumably there is a solution to this problem. We have 3 Win7 Pro PCs and
this works on one of the PCs (unfortunately, not the one where we need it to
work) and fails on the other two PCs.
Thanks for the two suggested
> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of
> Kiehl, Horst
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 8:10 AM
> To: Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR **; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Unable to run excel via cron
>
> (Tryin
ggested.
(Trying to remove TOFU to make the conversation appear chronological again and
with correct attributions.)
Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR ** wrote:
> > > We need to run some Excel programs via cron and are using vbscript to do
> > > this. We have this running on a WinXP machine
(Trying to remove TOFU to make the conversation appear chronological again and
with correct attributions.)
Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR ** wrote:
> > > We need to run some Excel programs via cron and are using vbscript to do
> > > this. We have this running on a WinXP machine but
s
a feature since Windows 2003 (permissions of LocalSystem) may come into
play here as well. Are you running cron under the cyg_server account
on W7 (hopefully)?
Two possible solutions come to mind:
- Either there is no solution. The reason might be that Excel is
expecting a GUI it can't
Unfortunately, using the 64-bit wscript.exe didn't change anything - same
behavior as before with excel hanging.
We are using 64-bit cygwin and 32-bit Excel (Excel 2007).
Denis
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR **
wrote:
> We need to run some Excel programs via
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR **
wrote:
> We need to run some Excel programs via cron and are using vbscript to do
> this. We have this running on a WinXP machine but are having trouble running
> on a Win7 machine, but we don't think it is a Win7 probl
We need to run some Excel programs via cron and are using vbscript to do this.
We have this running on a WinXP machine but are having trouble running on a
Win7 machine, but we don't think it is a Win7 problem.
Here's the script to run a simple test excel program:
Dim xlApp
Dim
Hello,
Installing the cron service, shows the name "Cron daemon" in the
service manager.
In my opinion, it should be better to follow the convention: "CYGWIN
servicenamed"
For example, the other CYGWIN services show: "CYGINW syslogd". "CYGWIN sshd" .
On 03/10/2015 09:48 AM, Stefan Schumacher wrote:
Hello
I am trying to set up a cron job to run a script every 10 minutes. I
have installed cron via the installer and configured it with cron-config
to run as a system service.
Mar 10 14:11:33 stefan-PC cron: PID 3408: `cron' service st
Hello
I am trying to set up a cron job to run a script every 10 minutes. I
have installed cron via the installer and configured it with cron-config
to run as a system service.
Mar 10 14:11:33 stefan-PC cron: PID 3408: `cron' service started
This is stefan's crontab, generated with
A new release of the Cygwin port of cron 4.1 is available in the 32-bit and
64-bit Cygwin distributions.
The change allows the cron-config script to handle new cron installations in
the upcoming Cygwin release, which does not rely on /etc/{password,group}.
Pierre
If you have questions or
uit
Set xlWb = Nothing
Set xlApp = Nothing
Here is the cron job to run this vb script:
c:/Windows/System32/wscript.exe
"c:\cygwin64\home\Upar2\bin\testExcel.vbs"
When this cron job is run, it hangs with Excel running (and doing nothing).
However, if the line that
Greetings, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR **!
> I am trying to port a cygwin application that uses cron from a WinXP PC to
> a Win7 Pro PC and I find some cron jobs won't run. Specifically, I need to
> run an Excel program from a cron job and this doesn't work on my Win7 PC.
For po
Greetings, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR **!
>>>> Try starting cron in terminal session and see if anything comes up.
>>
>> Stop (don't kill! Everyone, who use -KILL, must be -KILL'ed) the cron
>> service,
>> then start cron in terminal, using `runas /user:
On Nov 12, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR **
wrote:
>> More like you expect to run Excel interactively from service.
>> Not possible. Period.
>
> I'm not trying to run Excel interactively from a cron job. One of the
> limitations with using Excel from a cr
>>> Try starting cron in terminal session and see if anything comes up.
>
> Stop (don't kill! Everyone, who use -KILL, must be -KILL'ed) the cron service,
> then start cron in terminal, using `runas /user:... ...'. So it would run
> under proper user, and see
Greetings, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR **!
>>> What I mean by runs fine is that when I type this command at a bash prompt:
>>> run.excel 'c:\Shared\Bin\Create_Daily_Scorecard.xls'
>>> it runs to completion and creates a new .xls as its output. When I run
>> What I mean by runs fine is that when I type this command at a bash prompt:
>> run.excel 'c:\Shared\Bin\Create_Daily_Scorecard.xls'
>> it runs to completion and creates a new .xls as its output. When I run
>> this run.excel script from a cron job
strLogMessage
Close #2
Keith
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR **
wrote:
>>> An excel program is run like this:
>>
>>> run.excel 'c:\Shared\Bin\Create_Daily_Scorecard.xls'
>>
>>> When I run an Excel program inter
Greetings, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR **!
>>> An excel program is run like this:
>>
>>> run.excel 'c:\Shared\Bin\Create_Daily_Scorecard.xls'
>>
>>> When I run an Excel program interactively with this run.excel script it
>>> runs j
>> An excel program is run like this:
>
>> run.excel 'c:\Shared\Bin\Create_Daily_Scorecard.xls'
>
>> When I run an Excel program interactively with this run.excel script it
>> runs just fine but when I run it via a cron job Excel just hangs.
>
Greetings, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR **!
> I am trying to port a cygwin application that uses cron from a WinXP PC to
> a Win7 Pro PC and I find some cron jobs won't run. Specifically, I need to
> run an Excel program from a cron job and this doesn't work on my Win7 PC.
> In
I am trying to port a cygwin application that uses cron from a WinXP PC to a
Win7 Pro PC and I find some cron jobs won't run. Specifically, I need to run
an Excel program from a cron job and this doesn't work on my Win7 PC.
In order to run an Excel program from cygwin I have this
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 07:59:29AM -0400, Cary Lewis wrote:
> I have created a small shell script that acts like a network
> connectivity watchdog, which checks for a successful ping to the
> internet, and if it doesn't work, restarts the machine.
>
> When I attempt to run it
On 8/21/2014 7:25 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Cary Lewis!
I have created a small shell script that acts like a network
connectivity watchdog, which checks for a successful ping to the
internet, and if it doesn't work, restarts the machine.
When I attempt to run it from a cro
Greetings, Cary Lewis!
> I have created a small shell script that acts like a network
> connectivity watchdog, which checks for a successful ping to the
> internet, and if it doesn't work, restarts the machine.
> When I attempt to run it from a cron job, the script exits when
I have created a small shell script that acts like a network
connectivity watchdog, which checks for a successful ping to the
internet, and if it doesn't work, restarts the machine.
When I attempt to run it from a cron job, the script exits whenever
any of the commands exits with a non
> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-owne at cygwin.com on Behalf Of Denis
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 21:39
>
> I'm trying unsuccesfully to get cron to work under 64-bit cywin under Win7
> Pro. First, I tried running as myself (running cygwin with system
&g
I'm trying unsuccesfully to get cron to work under 64-bit cywin under Win7
Pro. First, I tried running as myself (running cygwin with system
administrator privilege):
$ cron-config
Do you want to install the cron daemon as a service? (yes/no) yes
Enter the value of CYGWIN for the daemon: [
On 05/13/2014 03:49 PM, First Last wrote:
> I had trouble when I updated to wget-1.15-1.
>
> I have a cron script that grabs a camera picture using
> wget. It failed with the new wget-1.15-1.
>
> 1) wget stderr has a line:
> Saving to: 'filename'
>
>
I had trouble when I updated to wget-1.15-1.
I have a cron script that grabs a camera picture using
wget. It failed with the new wget-1.15-1.
1) wget stderr has a line:
Saving to: 'filename'
In wget-1.13.4-1 the delimiter before the filename is a
backtick and after the filename
On 1/16/2014 8:05 PM, patrick wrote:
hi,
i had cron running from a 64bit cygwin install, but i decided to switch to a
32bit version.
the 32bit cygwin is installed to a differnt directory.
what i did:
running cron-config again from a terminal started as admin.
deinstalling the service via
hi,
i had cron running from a 64bit cygwin install, but i decided to switch
to a 32bit version.
the 32bit cygwin is installed to a differnt directory.
what i did:
running cron-config again from a terminal started as admin.
deinstalling the service via cygrunsrv -R cron and reinstalling via
hi,
i had cron running from a 64bit cygwin install, but i decided to switch
to a 32bit version.
the 32bit cygwin is installed to a differnt directory.
what i did:
running cron-config again from a terminal started as admin.
deinstalling the service via cygrunsrv -R cron and reinstalling via
On 09/24/2013 08:13 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
15 31593 [main] crontab 8612 fhandler_base::open_fs: 0 =
fhandler_disk_file::open(\??\C:\Cygwin\var\cron\tabs\dk068x, 0x8000)
21 31614 [main] crontab 8612 open: -1 = open(tabs/dk068x, 0x8000), errno 2
There you go: the process has no
ator, also try
changing the path in the mintty shortcut to
c:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -
% cygrunsrv -R cron
reboot to be on the safe side
After bootup use cygwin setup to uninstall cron, then run setup again
and install it.
% cron-config
You shouldn't need todo anything custom here, yes
On 09/24/2013 05:04 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
-Original Message-
From: KARR, DAVID
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 2:32 PM
Subject: RE: Confused about several issues with setting up cron
-Original Message-
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: Confused about
> -Original Message-
> From: KARR, DAVID
> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 2:32 PM
> Subject: RE: Confused about several issues with setting up cron
>
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 12:46 PM
> > Subject: Re: Confused
On 09/23/2013 08:59 PM, bartels wrote:
cron-config does not accept SYSTEM as a user
Hmm, looking at the script, it would seem that cron-config is capable of
configuring cron to run as system.
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built-in access control group, under which whole system kernel works.
You are saying it: SYSTEM is a UAC.
Besides, your argument is off topic, as this thread is about setting up sshd.
cron-config does not accept SYSTEM as a user
Of course we both know that to be just a limitation of cron-config
Greetings, bartels!
>>> By the way: SYSTEM is not a user.
>> Since when?
> Since Bill Gates stopped sleeping in his garage? :)
> $ passwd SYSTEM
> passwd: unknown user SYSTEM
> Without knowing too much about Windows internals, I have always considered
> SYSTEM to be a context, rather than a use
On 09/23/2013 04:44 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, bartels!
Greetings Andrey!
By the way: SYSTEM is not a user.
Since when?
Since Bill Gates stopped sleeping in his garage? :)
$ passwd SYSTEM
passwd: unknown user SYSTEM
Without knowing too much about Windows internals, I have alway
Greetings, bartels!
>>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 1.7.25(0.270/5/3) 2013-08-31 20:39 i686 Cygwin
>>>
>>> I want to set up a cron job, so I have to get cron configured. I'm trying
>>> to follow the instructions I can find, but I'm seeing several issues.
>>
On 9/21/2013 9:00 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
I'm surprised that there's nothing in the user guide or the FAQ about
setting up cron. I had to settle for the various questions about this on
StackOverflow and others.
For Cygwin packages other than the one providing the Cygwin DLL itse
On 09/22/2013 05:56 PM, bartels wrote:
On 09/22/2013 03:00 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 1.7.25(0.270/5/3) 2013-08-31 20:39 i686 Cygwin
I want to set up a cron job, so I have to get cron configured. I'm trying to
follow the instructions I can find, but I'm seeing several is
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