mkpasswd - mkgroup inconsistency in W2K Professional (cronproblem)

[Prentis Brooks]

Umm, there is a system account on Win2k.

I think the actual cygrunsrv command line should be:

cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a'-D' -e CYGWIN="tty ntsec"

Someone please correct me if I am wrong about the quotes, but I think
you need to include them.

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, jari aalto wrote:

> > > > > Is the generaton of mkpasswd and mkgroup correct? I wonder
> > > > > why the Administrator is put to group "none", gid 513 ?
> > > >
> > > > That's correct. On stand-alone machines (no domain) all users
> > > > are in group 513 including admin. If you don't want that, you
> > > > can change it in /etc/passwd according to the documentation
> > > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html
> > >
> > > Hm. I changed the content as suggested in the pages. Do you see any errors?
> > >
> > > > > This relates to cron problem that I'm trying to debug, what is
> > > > > the cause of the error and how can I help to fix it?
> > > > >
> > > > > 	//Administrator@W2KPICASSO /cygdrive/g $ cron
> > > > > 	seteuid: Not owner
> > > >
> > > > That's probably already fixed in the latest developer snapshots.
> > > > Corinna
> > >
> > > Unfortunately no, I installed cygwin1-20010725.dll and run cron again.
> > > Same answer. How can I help more to check this out?
> >
> > >From the command line? It's very likely that you don't have the
> > appropriate privileges. Note that admin users don't have that
> > permissions by default. Try starting cron as service from
> > cygrunsrv (according to the README) under SYSTEM account.
>
> The problem is with cyrunsrv as well. In W2K there is no SYSTEM account
> I could log into according to ControlPanel/ UsersAndPasswords ->
> Advanced[tab]/ Local-Users-and-Groups / Users
>
> so as Admin, I ran: (filesystem is FAT32)
>
>     cygrunsrv --stop cron && cygrunsrv --remove cron
>     cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e "CYGWIN=tty ntsec"
>
>     //root@W2KPICASSO ~ $ cygrunsrv --start cron
>     cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1062:
>     The service has not been started.
>
> EventViewer tells:
>
>     [exclamation mark]
>     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. The following information is part of the event: cron : Win32
>     Process Id = 0x528 : Cygwin Process Id = 0x528 : `cron' service
>     stopped.
>
>     [error]
>     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. The following information is part of the event: cron : Win32
>     Process Id = 0x528 : Cygwin Process Id = 0x528 : starting service
>     `cron' failed: execv: 255, error 0.
>
> Am I missing some step?
>
> Jari
>
>
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