Re: Cygwin Cron not running

2008-05-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Jonathan O'Leary wrote: Thanks for the info, however, I'm a bit confused. In cronbug it states that the permissions are: -rwxrwx--- 1 lumcon mkgroup-l-d 244 May 30 14:45 /var/cron/tabs/lumcon However, when I run a ls -al I get: -rw-r--r-- 1 lumcon mkgroup-l-d 244 May 30 14:45 /var/cron/tabs/lu

Re: Cygwin Cron not running

2008-05-30 Thread Jonathan O'Leary
Thanks for the info, however, I'm a bit confused. In cronbug it states that the permissions are: -rwxrwx--- 1 lumcon mkgroup-l-d 244 May 30 14:45 /var/cron/tabs/lumcon However, when I run a ls -al I get: -rw-r--r-- 1 lumcon mkgroup-l-d 244 May 30 14:45 /var/cron/tabs/lumcon How/why are they d

Re: Cygwin Cron not running

2008-05-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Jonathan O'Leary wrote: > I have a cron.log file in /var/log, however it is empty. Also, the contents > of /tmp is empty as well. Currently I am trying to run 2 jobs, one is a > shell script and one is a simple echo command to a file to see if I can get > anything to work. Neither of the jo

Re: Cygwin Cron problem

2007-08-08 Thread shash
Thanks Pierre, I have mailed to cygwin. Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "shash" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 5:39 AM > Subject: Cygwin Cron problem > > > | > | Hi, > | > | Before I start, I would like to inform that, I went through all FAQs a

Re: Cygwin Cron problem

2007-08-08 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: "shash" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 5:39 AM Subject: Cygwin Cron problem | | Hi, | | Before I start, I would like to inform that, I went through all FAQs and | other threads before posting here. | I came across this thread where I faced the similar

RE: Cygwin Cron - Cannot Switch user context

2004-11-08 Thread Rebstock, Roland
the error message "Cannot Switch User Context". Any help would be appreciated. -Original Message- From: Rebstock, Roland Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 12:03 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Cygwin Cron - Cannot Switch user context All, I have a Win2k3 server

RE: Cygwin Cron - Cannot Switch user context

2004-11-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Rebstock, Roland wrote: > All, I have a Win2k3 server with cygwin. I cannot get cron to execute > any jobs that previously ran under Win2k. The error is " Cannot Switch > user Context". Is there a solution? > > CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.5.5 > > Roland Rebstock Win2k3's SYSTEM account

RE: Cygwin Cron - Cannot Switch user context

2004-11-08 Thread Harig, Mark
Please run this diagnostic script. It will attempt to locate many types of common problems with cron on cygwin. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00207.html Please read the output of the script carefully. If it finds problems, it suggests possible fixes, and it will also recommend

RE: Cygwin Cron - Cannot Switch user context

2004-11-08 Thread Rebstock, Roland
All, I have a Win2k3 server with cygwin. I cannot get cron to execute any jobs that previously ran under Win2k. The error is " Cannot Switch user Context". Is there a solution? CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.5.5 Roland Rebstock -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repo

Re: cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-13 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: The main cygwin page provides a link that should make things pretty clear about how to subscribe to the cygwin lists. BTW: For those who don't want to fill up their mailboxes with 100+ messages a day, you can also go through the NNTP gateway at news.gmane.org, which carr

Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-10 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 08:27:05PM -0500, Paul J. Ghosh wrote: > > Pierre - your suggestion - will it not lead to root privileges for > svccron? You mean setting its uid to 0? It won't change anything for Windows ntsec. The advantage is that su won't prompt for passwd. The reason for the su is th

Re: cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-10 Thread Brian Dessent
"Paul J. Ghosh" wrote: > Christopher - you lost me. How am I supposed to reply to your message > from the site http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00505.html? My > current response is being composed by clicking on the button at the > bottom of the page > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PRO

Re: cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 08:54:33PM -0500, Paul J. Ghosh wrote: >Christopher - you lost me. How am I supposed to reply to your message >from the site http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00505.html? Ok, either you're new to the internet or you're trolling. I don't know which it is. We are comm

Re: cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-10 Thread Paul J. Ghosh
Christopher - you lost me. How am I supposed to reply to your message from the site http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00505.html? My current response is being composed by clicking on the button at the bottom of the page http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg44535.html which I am a

Re: cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 08:27:05PM -0500, Paul J. Ghosh wrote: >Larry/Igor - well - this is the first time I am participating in the >cygwin mailing list and from what I have read at http://ezmlm.org/ it is >supposed to add to threads if the subject is identical. URL? This is the first that I've

RE: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-10 Thread Paul J. Ghosh
Larry/Igor - well - this is the first time I am participating in the cygwin mailing list and from what I have read at http://ezmlm.org/ it is supposed to add to threads if the subject is identical. I have been using the same subject line. There was not an initial email that I could have replied t

Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-10 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 04:45:07PM -0500, Paul J. Ghosh wrote: > Thank you all for your help. We pursued all that was recommended and > still ran into the error: cron : PID 3784 : starting service `cron' > failed: execv: 128, Transport endpoint is not connected. > > Since invoking it command line

Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Paul J. Ghosh wrote: > Thank you all for your help. We pursued all that was recommended and > still ran into the error: cron : PID 3784 : starting service `cron' > failed: execv: 128, Transport endpoint is not connected. > > Since invoking it command line was successful we pu

Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-10 Thread Paul J. Ghosh
Thank you all for your help. We pursued all that was recommended and still ran into the error: cron : PID 3784 : starting service `cron' failed: execv: 128, Transport endpoint is not connected. Since invoking it command line was successful we put a wrapper in place that executes cron and added th

Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-10 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:43 AM 9/10/2004, you wrote: >Folks - any assistance would be greatly appreciated... And what about Igor's response would not qualify as "assistance"? If you're looking for something specific, you should ask the specific question. I thought Igor's reply looked quite helpful and was certainl

RE: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-09 Thread Anna Goldberg
Attached is the cygcheck when run by service_cron. Also, when we run the tasks as service_cron via command line the only error we're seeing is: cron : PID 2112 : (cdaapp) CAN'T OPEN (tabs/cdaapp), but if we're try starting the cron service we still get the error: cron : PID 3784 : starting servi

Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Paul J. Ghosh wrote: > Thank you to all who have replied. Enclosed find the following: > > - contents of crontab for user cdaapp - simple task to be executed > every minute for testing Looks ok, but see below for permissions issues. > - error encountered

Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-08 Thread Paul J. Ghosh
Thank you to all who have replied. Enclosed find the following: - contents of crontab for user cdaapp - simple task to be executed every minute for testing - error encountered when starting cron as service_cron - includes one as a dialog and another from the event viewer -

Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Anna Goldberg wrote: > We tried running cron_diagnose.sh, but that didn't produce any usefull > answers, the output we get is: > > $ ./cron_diagnose.sh > cron_diagnose.sh 1.5 > > Your computer does not appear to have a crontab for . > Please generate a crontab for using 'cront

Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-08 Thread Anna Goldberg
We tried running cron_diagnose.sh, but that didn't produce any usefull answers, the output we get is: $ ./cron_diagnose.sh cron_diagnose.sh 1.5 Your computer does not appear to have a crontab for . Please generate a crontab for using 'crontab -e', and run this script again. The version of cron w

Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:40 PM 9/8/2004, you wrote: >I can create and start a Cron service under Local System, but I can’t seem to be able >to have that service run as a different user (ex. cron_server). I tried creating a >custom user following the directions provided by Corinna Vinschen at >http://www.mail-archi

RE: CYGWIN & CRON

2004-05-18 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of izzogabriele > Sent: 18 May 2004 14:36 > To: cygwin > Subject: CYGWIN & CRON > > Hello world > > I have started the cron service under cygwin with the command: > > cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D > cygrunsrv -S cron > the

RE: cygwin cron help - Win2k

2002-12-11 Thread Harig, Mark A.
Please run the attached shell script. It will attempt to diagnose your problem with cron. It will not change any files, but may ask you to change some of your files or directories. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 09, 200

RE: cygwin cron help - Win2k

2002-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Administrator. Elfyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original Message: - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:26:40 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: cygwin cron help - Win2k thanks for the response. I am using the user "e181263". -Original Message- Fr

RE: cygwin cron help - Win2k

2002-12-09 Thread Lamar . Seifuddin
thanks for the response. I am using the user "e181263". -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 4:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: cygwin cron help - Win2k Hi, it would seem you

RE: cygwin cron help - Win2k

2002-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, it would seem you don't have permission to add a service. What user are you running (your shell) as? Elfyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original Message: - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:13:02 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cygwin cron help - Win2k Hello All,

RE: cygwin cron

2002-10-23 Thread Harig, Mark A.
/bin/date >> /tmp/dateit.txt If you can get that to work, then you can address the perl script problem separately. > -Original Message- > From: Smithesh Ramachandran [mailto:smithesh@;ticketmaster.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 3:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] &g

Re: cygwin cron

2002-10-22 Thread Smithesh Ramachandran
: (see below) > > $ ps -ef|grep cron > > SYSTEM 5361336 ? 10:24:55 /usr/sbin/cron > > > > Attaching the output for cygcheck -r -s -v > > > > Please let me know if you need anything more. > > > > Thanks, > > Smithesh. > > > >

Re: cygwin cron

2002-10-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:21:08PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > The fact that scp works for you from the command line doesn't necessarily > > mean it will work from cron. Ssh and scp look in $HOME/.ssh for public > > /usr/doc/cygwin/openss

Re: cygwin cron

2002-10-21 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:21:08PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > The fact that scp works for you from the command line doesn't necessarily > mean it will work from cron. Ssh and scp look in $HOME/.ssh for public /usr/doc/cygwin/openssh: "Please note that OpenSSH does never use the value of

RE: cygwin cron

2002-10-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:lhall@;pop.ma.ultranet.com] > Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 3:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: cygwin cron > > > I'm afraid that what you've provided only tells us what you'r

RE: cygwin cron

2002-10-21 Thread Smithesh Ramachandran
OTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: cygwin cron I'm afraid that what you've provided only tells us what you're doing and how you're doing it. Unfortunately, we don't know anything else about your system or your setup. Make sure you've revi

RE: cygwin cron

2002-10-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm afraid that what you've provided only tells us what you're doing and how you're doing it. Unfortunately, we don't know anything else about your system or your setup. Make sure you've reviewed the email archives for cron issues and resolutions and that you've reviewed the cron and login READ