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 to nor was there a References: that I could have manipulated when I started. I read the responses by going to the site http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/ which just lists items chronologically. But, since it was not available night before last I discovered the site http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ that actually does have all my responses threaded correctly. In fact, the presentation is prefered since it is by thread/subject as opposed to by date/time. So, tell me what I am supposed to do such that responses are correctly threaded and I will comply...
Igor - even though we did not state the command executed to add cron as a service it did include the -D option as described in the message http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg31538.html. Yes, we have tried running it as you have described and it still fails with the error: cron : PID 3784 : starting service `cron' failed: execv: 128, Transport endpoint is not connected. Also yes, you have correctly pointed out that the -a is erroneous in my summation of steps. I am including an updated set of instructions just to ensure that any future readers will not be mislead. Pierre - your suggestion - will it not lead to root privileges for svccron? If yes, then that is not desirable. However, I will try it out and let all know the outcome. In a bash shell with a simple command it prompts for a password. $ su -c "exec echo foobar" system Password: su: incorrect password Thank you all once again. Hopefully one of you can get it to work on W2K3 without wrappers. Regards, Paul J. Ghosh 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 -u svccron -w <passwd> - execute following as user for which tasks need to be scheduled $ xcrontab -e - for details $ man 5 crontab
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