Re: crontab error

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Chuck,

Are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files up to date?  The output of
"cygcheck -svr" (*attached*, as per <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>)
should show whether this is the case.
	Igor

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Chuck Hamilton wrote:

> Didn't even know I was addressing a mailing list. I posted originally to a
> newsgroup. Anyway, here's the output.
>
> $ crontab -l
> no crontab for isscha
>
> As I said in a previous post I haven't been able to create a crontab. When I
> try I get a permissions error. See below.
>
> $ cat /tmp/crontab.1448
> 50 8 * * * ~isscha/bin/test.sh
>
> $ crontab /tmp/crontab.1448
> chown: Invalid argument
> $
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Harig, Mark A.
> To: Chuck Hamilton
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 3:43 PM
> Subject: RE: crontab error
>
>
> Please address all replies to cygwin@cygwin.com.
>
> Please send to the mailing list the following as attachments:
>
> 1. The output of 'crontab -l' ("ell", not "one")
>
> 2. The output of 'cygcheck -srv > cygcheck.txt'
>
> This information will help readers of the mailing list to
> diagnose the problem that you are having.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Hamilton [mailto:chuckh@softhome.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 3:13 PM
> To: Harig, Mark
> Subject: Re: crontab error
>
>
> Here's what I get...
>
> Your computer does not appear to have a crontab for isscha.
> Please generate a crontab for isscha using 'crontab -e',
> and run this script again.
>
> So I again try to generate a crontab with just a comment line in it and get
> this...
>
> $ crontab -e
> crontab: installing new crontab
> chown: Invalid argument
> crontab: edits left in /tmp/crontab.1660
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harig, Mark A." <maharig@idirect.net>
> To: "Chuck" <chuckh@softhome.net>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 12:06 PM
> Subject: RE: crontab error
>
>
> Please run the attached script.
> It will check some file permissions
> and other details that need to be
> set up properly in order for cron to
> work.  It does NOT change anything
> on your computer, but only diagnoses.
> You may need to run it several times
> until it completes successfully (it
> will stop any time it finds a problem
> and report to you what problem needs
> to be corrected).
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chuck [mailto:chuckh@softhome.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 9:27 AM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: crontab error
> >
> >
> > I need a little help getting cron to work. My apologies if
> > this is answered
> > somewhere else but I haven't been able to find it.
> >
> > I've installed cron as a win2k service using "cygrunsrv -I cron -p
> > /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -d "Cygwin cron" -e "CYGWIN=tty ntsec" "
> > as suggested
> > in another post. When I try to start the service I get "Could
> > not start the
> > cygwin cron service on local computer. The service did not
> > return an error.
> > This could be an internal Windows error or an internal service error."
> >
> > When I try to create a crontab file with "crontab -e" and
> > save it I get the
> > following error "chown: Invalid argument".
> >
> > What do I need to do to fix these?
> >
> >
>
>
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