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 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 >
I am wondering if the additional steps below would not remove the need for xcrontab: 1) after mkpasswd -l -u svccron >> /etc/passwd edit /etc/passwd and set the uid of svccron to 0 2) Change the command in xcron to su -c "exec /usr/sbin/cron -D" system Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
