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Re: [ cron/crontab ] someone using cron on cygwin?
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ cron/crontab ] someone using cron on cygwin?
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit dot haase at t-online dot de>
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 08:35:02 +0200
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <3AF33F9B.24184.178EAE0B@localhost>; from gerrit.haase@t-online.de on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:47:39PM +0200
- Reply-to: gerrit dot haase at t-online dot de
Corinna Vinschen schrieb am 2001-05-06, 20:06:
Hi Corinna,
> > I recreated it a dozen times:
> >
> > siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~
> > $ crontab
> > crontab: can't obtain passwd entry.
> >
> > siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~
> > $ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> >
> > siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~
> > $ crontab
> > crontab: can't obtain passwd entry.
> >
> > from passwd:
> > Siebenschlaefer::500:513:Gerrit Haase,S-1-5-21-2027841136-734554988-996637233-500:/home/siebenschlaefer:/bin/bash
> >
> > siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~
> > $ id
> > uid=500(siebenschlaefer) gid=544(Administratoren) groups=544(Administratoren),544(Administratoren)
>
> You will have to debug that.
>
> Corinna
>
It works now if logged in as a user (news), but only if invoked:
$ crontab -e
in editor mode.
Another question, invoked by cron, the application starts up and
i get a pid which i am able to see in 'taskmanager' but if I call
ps at commandline, it is not shown?
Is that a known issue?
gph
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