Re: problems with cron & permissions

2009-08-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/08/2009 11:29 PM, michael trott wrote: I had already set Cron to run as my service from within Cygwin, and also under services.msc Cron is running as me. Are they the only two area's it need to me set? You want to re-run 'cron-config' specifying that you want to run the service as your u

Re: problems with cron & permissions

2009-08-08 Thread michael trott
I had already set Cron to run as my service from within Cygwin, and also under services.msc Cron is running as me. Are they the only two area's it need to me set? thanks, i really appreciate it :) On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Reini Urban wrote: > 2009/8/8 michael trott: >> sure uve heard it

Re: problems with cron & permissions

2009-08-08 Thread Reini Urban
2009/8/8 michael trott: > sure uve heard it all before. trying to get cron to backup my system > to a samba share thats mounted to a local drive. i can run the script > and back up fine. This is my crontab: Try the same as user SYSTEM and not as your local user and you will get the same error. Th

problems with cron & permissions

2009-08-08 Thread michael trott
hi all, sure uve heard it all before. trying to get cron to backup my system to a samba share thats mounted to a local drive. i can run the script and back up fine. This is my crontab: mich...@home-pc ~ $ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.7ktN9TGa