Hello, I recently grabbed all the latest cygwin stuff and did a full install with hopes of getting some genuine cron support on my win2k machine. After playing around with setting up cron for a while I couldn't seem to get anywhere. The cron process would start as a service, but it just sat there and nothing seemed to happen when I threw crontabs at it. I eventually downloaded the source for cron and compiled my own binary with "DEBUGGING" defined. Now running cron with "-x proc" I am able to see that cron is in fact attempting to execute my crontabs, but it fails every time because it can't switch the user context. /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README mentions that you must run cron against cygwin-1.3.2 for password-less user context switches to work. I am running cygwin-1.3.2 but I'm starting to believe that I need to do something else too... Here's what I've done so far: 1. Installed entire Cygwin suite (via setup.exe) 2. Installed a debug-capable cron to run as service (via cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron.debug.exe -a "-x proc") 3. Set up ssmtp 4. Ran crontab -e a few times. 5. Recieved email messages from cron saying it can't switch the user context. I've also played around with setting "ntsec" while running cygrunsrv, but it doesn't seem to matter. "ntsec" does affect the operation of crontab however. "crontab -e" fails with "chown: permission denied" when executed from an environment that has "ntsec" in the CYGWIN variable. So I suspect I'm not doing something that I need to do, and I have a hunch that it has something to do with the "ntsec" feature... Has anyone been here before? Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks, -Shawn -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
