----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Schmidt" To: cygwin Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:09 PM
| On all the systems where cron works I did NOT run cron-config. I used | the following line to install cron: | cygrunsrv --install cron --path=/usr/sbin/cron --desc='Cygwin cron | service' --type=auto --neverexits -a '-n' | | It has always worked for me. | | Nothing cron-related in /tmp | | When it stopped working on 1 system, I ran cron-config on that system. | Here is the result: | <snip> | Running cron_diagnose ... | It appears that you do not have an entry for: | NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM | in /etc/passwd. OK, that happens because your environment has USERDOMAIN=NT AUTHORITY USERNAME=SYSTEM and that confuses cron-config (it's trying to check you have a passwd entry) I suspect that you are logged in under ssh or some such. It's a Cygwin issue with a long history, but it's not something to worry about for cron. I will fix that test. | ================================================================ | attached is the cronbug.txt | | Note that if I run cron-config on any of the systems that work perfectly | fine, I get the same warnings about the account and the environment, but | when I restore the service with the cygrunserv command above, it works | fine. Only this 1 system refuses. They use the same userids and | configuration as far as I can tell. What do you mean by "refuses"? As far as I can see from the log, cron does change to the "impact" user and the command runs. What led you to the "Subject:" of your e-mail? What's happening to all the echo `date` > /tmp/date you have been running recently ? It's kind of weird they don't run every minute. I also see some MAIL (mailed 56 bytes of output but got status 0x0001) That would happen if /tmp is not writable. Any reason that would be the case ? Just to be sure, please edit /bin/cronlog and change all "exit 1" to "exit 123". Pierre -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
