Re: Cron can't switch user context

2021-04-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Brian Inglis! >> We are aware that there are many tutorials and Q&A on the net which deal with >> exactly this subject. However, none of the proposed solutions worked for us. The one Q&A should have get you started: since Cygwin 3.1 (IIRC, may be earlier), the core was changed to use L

Re: Cron can't switch user context

2021-04-27 Thread Brian Inglis
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 anything in th

Re: cron: can't switch user context

2003-09-14 Thread René Haber
I already read the link and tried to create an account as Corinna suggested, but then cron doesn't start while creating this error in the syslog: CYGWIN crond : PID 3376 : starting service `CYGWIN crond' failed: execv: 1, Operation not permitted. I also tried Mark's new cron-diagnose scrip

RE: cron: can't switch user context

2003-09-10 Thread Larry Hall
Actually, I'd suggest googling, especially when you're asking if the issue you're having is a known problem or if there are any work-arounds. In this case, you'd find all sort of references to Windows 2003 and services that need to be able to switch user contexts.

RE: cron: can't switch user context

2003-09-10 Thread Harig, Mark
I cannot see the source of your problem from the cygcheck listing. However, you are running a Windows .NET server. I do not know what effect that might have on cron. Please run the attached cron_diagnose.sh script. It is the latest version. I would like for you to eliminate the possibility th

Re: cron: can't switch user context

2003-09-08 Thread René Haber
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Do you Google? Igor Thx for the Hint. I only used the search function of the Maillinglist-Archiv. I've read through the results and did't get it to work. I tried to let the

Re: cron: can't switch user context

2003-09-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, René Haber wrote: > Hello > > I've got Cygwin runnig on Windows 2003 and wanted to use the cron > daemon. I installed it via > >cygrunsrv -I "CYGWIN crond" -p /usr/sbin/cron.exe -a -D > > as a NT-Service. Then I added a cronjob via "crontab -e" (I was logged > in as Adminis