Been there and done that. It doesn't change the ownership of any of the command though. Do I need run a chown on the cron command? If so what should be owner and group be?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chuck Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:08 AM Subject: Re: crontab error > Chuck Hamilton wrote: > > It already the permissions set to 777. > > > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ mkgroup_ 32256 Apr 15 11:16 cron* > ^^^^^^^^ > Ahem. Here's the problem. Your /etc/group file is not current. > Rerun mkgroup with the appropriate flags. You may want to do this > for /etc/passwd too. If one's not current, more than likely, the > other isn't either. > > > I did try changing the user the service runs as but it failed with a logon > > error so I changed it back to LocalSystem. It seems like it's got to be some > > kind of Win2k permissions thing. If I run cron from a cygwin session, it > > works fine. If I run it as a service it fails to start. I've tried adding > > the cygwin /usr/bin and /usr/lib directories to my Win2k path but that > > didn't help either (though now I can run cygwin commands from a DOS prompt > > if I want). > > > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > -- 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/
