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Re: crontab (Attn: FAQ maintainer)
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Jean-Michel Douchain wrote:
> >
> > "Ah, that may explain it. Is G: a network drive?"
> >
> > That's right. It's a Dos network drive, and in fact, the response of
> > "ls" is very long. I installed cygwin for all users. So I don't know
> > how to manage because my script works by hand!! What are the
> > differents between the cron and the handy execution?? Perhaps
> > including a loop to wait for the answer, will solve my bug??
>
> The answer is in the link that Igor gave you. This FAQ perhaps should
> be split up into two questions, or at least be made more clear that
> there are two problems being addressed in the answer.
FWIW, I second this suggestion. Joshua, can we have two questions: "Why
don't Cygwin services work?" and "Why can't Cygwin services access network
shares?" instead of the combined one?
> The first part about user/system mounts is not your problem. Read the
> second part of the answer, and read the 'ntsec' part of the manual for
> the full explanation.
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> When cron runs your job, it is running as SYSTEM impersonating the user
> account that owns the crontab. During impersonation, the user's
> password is not available and so non-public network shares are not
> available.
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Now, the marked part above, IMO, looks good enough to put almost verbatim
into the second question. Opinions?
Igor
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