Re: cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues
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Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues
At 10:43 AM 9/10/2004, you wrote: Folks - any assistance would be greatly appreciated... And what about Igor's response would not qualify as assistance? If you're looking for something specific, you should ask the specific question. I thought Igor's reply looked quite helpful and was certainly an excellent attempt at assistance. If it's not for you, then at the very least you need to be more specific about the kind of assistance you're looking for. Or maybe I just missed a portion of this thread. I tried to go back and recap from the web but it looks like your replies (at least) break the thread every time. I got tired of searching for some new branch... -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues
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-x1 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-x1 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 Description: Binary data xcrontab Description: Binary data -- 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/
Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, 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-x1 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-x1 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 Well, Larry is right -- it's very hard to follow a thread where the replies neither quote the original message nor have the correct References: or In-Reply-To: fields. However, I've just reviewed the whole thread. I don't believe you (or Anna Goldberg) ever said what the exact cygrunsrv invocation of the cron service was. Had you said that, it would have been rather obvious that you were simply missing the -D argument to cron, and that adding that would have most likely solved your problem. FWIW, I don't believe the cygrunsrv invocation above works for you, since the -a flag requires an argument, and will grab the -u. You probably didn't cut-and-paste the exact command. In any case, you can try simply using $ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -u svccron -w passwd and see if it works. The crontab trick, on the other hand, might be necessary. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/
Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues
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-x1 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-x1 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) aftermkpasswd -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/
RE: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues
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-x1 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-x1 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 xcrontab Description: Binary data xcron Description: Binary data -- 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/
Re: cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 08:27:05PM -0500, Paul J. Ghosh wrote: 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. URL? This is the first that I've heard that ezmlm is broken on sourceware.org. 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. Look closer. There are a variety of listing options available. Regardless, this has nothing to do with how some random web archiver lists email. You're reading a mailing list. Respond to the email using any modern email client and you will preserve threading. cgf -- 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/
Re: cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues
Christopher - you lost me. How am I supposed to reply to your message from the site http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00505.html? My current response is being composed by clicking on the button at the bottom of the page http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg44535.html which I am assuming will contain the correct reference. Help me out here - I have web site blindness! Yes, I have now looked closer and discovered the 'Thread Index' option on http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/. Thank you. Regards, Paul J. Ghosh -- 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/
Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 08:27:05PM -0500, Paul J. Ghosh wrote: Pierre - your suggestion - will it not lead to root privileges for svccron? You mean setting its uid to 0? It won't change anything for Windows ntsec. The advantage is that su won't prompt for passwd. The reason for the su is that cron will run as system, which is what crontab expects. 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. Except if the uid is 0 ! If it works you could also try to get rid of xcron and run something like $ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/bin/su -a -c 'exec /usr/sbin/cron -D' system -u svccron -w passwd (my quoting may be off). Also don't forget to delete /var/run/cron.pid when changing cron daemon uid. 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/
Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Paul J. Ghosh wrote: Thank you to all who have replied. Enclosed find the following: - contents of crontab for user cdaapp - simple task to be executed every minute for testing Looks ok, but see below for permissions issues. - error encountered when starting cron as service_cron - includes one as a dialog and another from the event viewer Hmm, can you log in as service_cron and try running the cron service command (/usr/sbin/cron -D) and cygcheck -svr from the command line? That would help answer a few questions... - test of task to be executed by cron done manually as user cdaapp which succeeded Again, you need to run this task as service_cron to get a meaningful result. - error encountered when successfully starting cron as Local System but fails when it comes time to execute task - we are aware of Local System account changes in W2K3 related to setuid and were not expecting it to work But the service started, which shows that it *might* be a permissions issue. Besides checking the applications, check all the relevant directories, and make sure service_cron has the execute permission on them (which will allow it to enter the directories and access the files in them), and the write permission to any directory where it needs to create files. - long listing of /bin /usr/sbin /var /var/cron /var/cron/tabs - bin executable by all (755) How about ls -ld /bin /usr/sbin /var/log/cda? /var/cron/tabs seems locked down Actually, since you've started cron as different users, it's possible that SYSTEM owns some of the files, and service_cron has no access to them (see, for example, /var/cron/tabs/cdapp). This *may* be a bug in the crontab application (i.e., it may assume that SYSTEM will be the user running cron). - parts of /etc/passwd for user cdaapp - tried changing groups 513/544 without any success You may need to add service_cron to the SYSTEM group... - parts of /etc/group Regards, Paul J. Ghosh [snip] ### ls -l /var total 0 drwxrwx---+ 3 devadm Users 0 Sep 1 09:19 cache drwxrwxrwt+ 3 devadm Users 0 Oct 7 2003 cron drwxrwx---+ 2 devadm Users 0 Sep 7 17:04 log ^^^ Aha. One problem here. drwxr-xr-x+ 2 SYSTEM root0 Oct 7 2003 proftpd drwxrwxrwx+ 2 devadm Users 0 Sep 8 14:36 run drwxrwx---+ 2 devadm Users 0 Oct 7 2003 tmp [snip] ### ls -l /var/cron/tabs total 1 -rw-r-1 cdaapp SYSTEM392 Sep 8 13:12 cdaapp ^^^ Another here. This file will be unreadable to a service running as service_cron, even if you manage to get it started. ### cygcheck -svr [snip] In the future, please *attach* the output of cygcheck -svr as an uncompressed text attachment, instead of including it inline. 1126k 2004/05/26 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 cygwin1.dll v0.0 ts=2004/5/25 21:07 Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.5.10 Probably not related to your problem, but why not upgrade to 1.5.11? BTW, your /etc/passwd and /etc/group entries look ok. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/
RE: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues
Attached is the cygcheck when run by service_cron. Also, when we run the tasks as service_cron via command line the only error we're seeing is: cron : PID 2112 : (cdaapp) CAN'T OPEN (tabs/cdaapp), but if we're try starting the cron service we still get the error: cron : PID 3784 : starting service `cron' failed: execv: 128, Transport endpoint is not connected. Igor recommended adding service_cron to the System group, but that group doesn't exist in the Windows environment (or at least I couldn't find it). Any suggestions as to how to do this if it is possible in the Windows env.? Currently the service_cron user is part of the Administrators, Users, and Terminal Service Users groups. Thank you very much, ~ Anna On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Paul J. Ghosh wrote: Thank you to all who have replied. Enclosed find the following: - contents of crontab for user cdaapp - simple task to be executed every minute for testing Looks ok, but see below for permissions issues. - error encountered when starting cron as service_cron - includes one as a dialog and another from the event viewer Hmm, can you log in as service_cron and try running the cron service command (/usr/sbin/cron -D) and cygcheck -svr from the command line? That would help answer a few questions... - test of task to be executed by cron done manually as user cdaapp which succeeded Again, you need to run this task as service_cron to get a meaningful result. - error encountered when successfully starting cron as Local System but fails when it comes time to execute task - we are aware of Local System account changes in W2K3 related to setuid and were not expecting it to work But the service started, which shows that it *might* be a permissions issue. Besides checking the applications, check all the relevant directories, and make sure service_cron has the execute permission on them (which will allow it to enter the directories and access the files in them), and the write permission to any directory where it needs to create files. - long listing of /bin /usr/sbin /var /var/cron /var/cron/tabs - bin executable by all (755) How about ls -ld /bin /usr/sbin /var/log/cda? /var/cron/tabs seems locked down Actually, since you've started cron as different users, it's possible that SYSTEM owns some of the files, and service_cron has no access to them (see, for example, /var/cron/tabs/cdapp). This *may* be a bug in the crontab application (i.e., it may assume that SYSTEM will be the user running cron). - parts of /etc/passwd for user cdaapp - tried changing groups 513/544 without any success You may need to add service_cron to the SYSTEM group... - parts of /etc/group Regards, Paul J. Ghosh [snip] ### ls -l /var total 0 drwxrwx---+ 3 devadm Users 0 Sep 1 09:19 cache drwxrwxrwt+ 3 devadm Users 0 Oct 7 2003 cron drwxrwx---+ 2 devadm Users 0 Sep 7 17:04 log ^^^ Aha. One problem here. drwxr-xr-x+ 2 SYSTEM root0 Oct 7 2003 proftpd drwxrwxrwx+ 2 devadm Users 0 Sep 8 14:36 run drwxrwx---+ 2 devadm Users 0 Oct 7 2003 tmp [snip] ### ls -l /var/cron/tabs total 1 -rw-r-1 cdaapp SYSTEM392 Sep 8 13:12 cdaapp ^^^ Another here. This file will be unreadable to a service running as service_cron, even if you manage to get it started. ### cygcheck -svr [snip] In the future, please *attach* the output of cygcheck -svr as an uncompressed text attachment, instead of including it inline. 1126k 2004/05/26 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 cygwin1.dll v0.0 ts=2004/5/25 21:07 Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.5.10 Probably not related to your problem, but why not upgrade to 1.5.11? BTW, your /etc/passwd and /etc/group entries look ok. Igor _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Sep 09 09:10:30 2004 Windows .NET Server Ver 5.2 Build 3790 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin c:\blp\API\dde c:\WINNT\system32 c:\WINNT c:\WINNT\system32\WBEM c:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\FrameworkSDK\Bin\ c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Common7\IDE\ c:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705\ c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Vc7\bin\ c:\Program Files\Dell\OpenManage\oma\bin c:\Program Files\Dell\OpenManage\LU\bin c:\Program
Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues
At 02:40 PM 9/8/2004, you wrote: I can create and start a Cron service under Local System, but I cant seem to be able to have that service run as a different user (ex. cron_server). I tried creating a custom user following the directions provided by Corinna Vinschen at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg31538.html, but it did not resolve my problem. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Let's start here: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Adding specifics to that, it would be useful to know what you did, where you saw a problem, and what it was. You may also want to try http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00155.html before any follow-up post. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues
We tried running cron_diagnose.sh, but that didn't produce any usefull answers, the output we get is: $ ./cron_diagnose.sh cron_diagnose.sh 1.5 Your computer does not appear to have a crontab for administrator. Please generate a crontab for administrator using 'crontab -e', and run this script again. The version of cron we have is: # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $) The error that appears in the Event Viewer when trying to run the service is: Event Type: Error Event Source: cron Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 9/8/2004 Time: 2:36:16 PM User: Server Name\service_cron Computer: Server Name Description: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( cron ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: cron : PID 2332 : starting service `cron' failed: execv: 128, Transport endpoint is not connected. We've created a custom local user account called service_cron and gave it the following permissions: - SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege - SeCreateTokenPrivilege - SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege - SeServiceLogonRight and installed the cron service as this user, but we were not able to start the service. Then we removed the cron service and re-installed it under the Local System user account, at which time we were able to start the service, but are now getting the error listed above when the scheduled task(s) is run. Let me know if any more information is needed. Thank you, ~ Anna _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement -- 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/
Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Anna Goldberg wrote: We tried running cron_diagnose.sh, but that didn't produce any usefull answers, the output we get is: $ ./cron_diagnose.sh cron_diagnose.sh 1.5 Your computer does not appear to have a crontab for administrator. Please generate a crontab for administrator using 'crontab -e', and run this script again. The version of cron we have is: # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $) The error that appears in the Event Viewer when trying to run the service is: Event Type: Error Event Source: cron Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 9/8/2004 Time: 2:36:16 PM User: Server Name\service_cron Computer: Server Name Description: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( cron ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: cron : PID 2332 : starting service `cron' failed: execv: 128, Transport endpoint is not connected. We've created a custom local user account called service_cron and gave it the following permissions: - SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege - SeCreateTokenPrivilege - SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege - SeServiceLogonRight and installed the cron service as this user, but we were not able to start the service. Then we removed the cron service and re-installed it under the Local System user account, at which time we were able to start the service, but are now getting the error listed above when the scheduled task(s) is run. Let me know if any more information is needed. Thank you, ~ Anna Anna, What kind of scheduled task produces the above error? Does the hello world of crontabs (i.e., /usr/bin/date /tmp/cron_date 21) run normally? If not, please check permissions on /bin and the programs in /bin -- are they executable by non-owners (i.e., post the output of ls -l /usr/bin/date.exe)? Also, please review and follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html, particularly the part about *attaching* (as an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of cygcheck -svr on your system. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/
Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues
Thank you to all who have replied. Enclosed find the following: - contents of crontab for user cdaapp - simple task to be executed every minute for testing - error encountered when starting cron as service_cron - includes one as a dialog and another from the event viewer - test of task to be executed by cron done manually as user cdaapp which succeeded - error encountered when successfully starting cron as Local System but fails when it comes time to execute task - we are aware of Local System account changes in W2K3 related to setuid and were not expecting it to work - long listing of /bin /usr/sbin /var /var/cron /var/cron/tabs - bin executable by all (755) /var/cron/tabs seems locked down - parts of /etc/passwd for user cdaapp - tried changing groups 513/544 without any success - parts of /etc/group Regards, Paul J. Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] /d/opt/cda/bin $ crontab -e crontab: no changes made to crontab */1 * * * * touch /d/var/log/cda/cron.log ### error when starting cron as service_cron Could not start the cron service on Local Computer Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly. Event Type: Error Event Source: cron Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 9/8/2004 Time: 11:12:26 PM User: DEVAPP1\service_cron Computer: DEVAPP1 Description: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( cron ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: cron : PID 272 : starting service `cron' failed: execv: 128, Transport endpoint is not connected. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ touch /d/var/log/cda/cron.log [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /d/var/log/cda/cron.log -rw-r--r--1 cdaapp Domain U0 Sep 8 23:20 /d/var/log/cda/cron.log [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date Wed Sep 8 23:20:26 CDT 2004 ### error when running cron as Local System Event Type: Information Event Source: /USR/SBIN/CRON Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 9/8/2004 Time: 2:30:00 PM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: DEVAPP1 Description: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /USR/SBIN/CRON ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: /USR/SBIN/CRON : PID 3752 : (cdaapp) CMD (touch /d/var/log/cda/cron.log). Event Type: Information Event Source: /USR/SBIN/CRON Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 9/8/2004 Time: 2:30:00 PM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: DEVAPP1 Description: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /USR/SBIN/CRON ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: /USR/SBIN/CRON : PID 3752 : (CRON) error (can't switch user context). ### ls -l /bin total 43133 -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 devadm Users 101888 Aug 19 14:49 a2p.exe -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 devadm Users 67072 Dec 16 2002 addftinfo.exe -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 devadm Users8544 Dec 16 2002 afmtodit -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 devadm Users2442 Mar 22 15:04 apropos -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 devadm Users8192 Mar 12 22:26 ascii.exe lrwxrwxrwx1 devadm Users 8 Sep 1 09:18 awk.exe - gawk.exe -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 devadm Users 10240 Mar 22 13:59 b2m.exe -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 devadm Users 10240 Mar 12 22:26 banner.exe -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 devadm Users 23552 Jul 24 2003 basename.exe -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 devadm Users 527360 Oct 20 2003 bash.exe -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 devadm Users7879 Oct 20 2003 bashbug -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 devadm Users 204800 Mar 8 2003 bison.exe -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 devadm Users 82432 Aug 9 2003 bunzip2.exe -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 devadm Users 57856 Dec 15 2001 byacc.exe -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 devadm Users 82432 Aug 9 2003 bzcat.exe lrwxrwxrwx1 devadm Users 6 Oct 7 2003 bzcmp - bzdiff -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 devadm Users2105 Aug 9 2003 bzdiff lrwxrwxrwx1 devadm Users 6 Oct 7 2003 bzegrep - bzgrep lrwxrwxrwx1 devadm Users 6 Oct 7 2003 bzfgrep - bzgrep -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 devadm Users1582 Aug 9 2003 bzgrep
