I'm using a cygwin that I refreshed yesterday, on Win2K SP2. uname -a says: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 COMPUTER 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) 2002-07-06 02:16 i686 unknown
I installed the cron service following recommendations to include CYGWIN="tty ntsec". Cygcheck reveals that cron is version 3.0.1-7. Everything appears fine when I create my crontab file, and jobs do actually run. But then I'm not allowed to edit the file. I even deleted /var/cron to ensure correct permissions, and have tried both recreating it with the postinstall script and letting crontab recreate it. No joy. The console session below is fairly typical. sholden@COMPUTER ~ $ crontab -l /var/cron: No such file or directory /var/cron: created tabs: No such file or directory tabs: created no crontab for sholden sholden@COMPUTER ~ $ crontab -e no crontab for sholden - using an empty one crontab: installing new crontab sholden@COMPUTER ~ $ crontab -e crontab: no changes made to crontab sholden@COMPUTER ~ $ ls -lRF /var/cron /var/cron: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 sholden None 0 Oct 10 13:11 tabs/ /var/cron/tabs: total 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 sholden None 224 Oct 10 13:11 sholden >From a cursory reading of the source this look like a failure to rename the temporary file. What have I done wrong? regards ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Holden http://www.holdenweb.com/ Python Web Programming http://pydish.holdenweb.com/pwp/ Previous .sig file retired to www.homeforoldsigs.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
