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 the wrapper as a service. cron is now
working. For the issue where crontab assumes that SYSTEM is the owner
of the cron service and leaves the contents of the /var/cron/tabs as 640
with a group of SYSTEM we also created a wrapper that changes the
permission to 644.
Here is the detail of what we have put into place and provided to the
release engineer:
overview:
- create local user called 'svccron'
- set up permissions for local user
- create wrappers for cron/crontab
- add wrapped cron as service
- set up schedules
execute the following within a bash shell:
- create local user called 'svccron'
net user svccron <passwd> /add /yes
net localgroup <administrators_group_name> svccron /add
editrights -a SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege -u svccron
editrights -a SeCreateTokenPrivilege -u svccron
editrights -a SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege -u svccron
editrights -a SeServiceLogonRight -u svccron
mkpasswd -l -u svccron >> /etc/passwd
for security reasons:
editrights -a SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight -u svccron
editrights -a SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -u svccron
editrights -a SeDenyRemoteInteractiveLogonRight -u svccron
- create wrapper for cron - attached 'xcron'/contents below
- install in /usr/sbin
- change permissions for xcron
$ chmod 744 /usr/sbin/xcron
$ cat /usr/sbin/xcron
#!/usr/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/cron -D
$ ls -l /usr/sbin/xcron
-rwxr-xr-x 1 devadm Domain U 34 Sep 10 14:03
/usr/sbin/xcron
- create wrapper for crontab - attached 'xcrontab'/contents
below
- install in /usr/bin
- change permissions for xcrontab
$ chmod 744 /usr/bin/xcrontab
$ cat /usr/bin/xcrontab
#!/usr/bin/bash
/usr/bin/crontab $@;
xval=$?;
chmod 644 /var/cron/tabs/$USER;
exit $xval;
$ ls -l /usr/bin/xcrontab
-rwxr-xr-x 1 devadm Domain U 90 Sep 10 13:58
/usr/bin/xcrontab
- add wrapped cron as service
$ cygrunsrv -I xcron -p /usr/sbin/xcron -a -u svccron -w
<passwd>
- execute following as user for which tasks need to be scheduled
$ xcrontab -e
- for details
$ man 5 crontab
Regards,
Paul J. Ghosh
xcron
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