Unable to get CRON to work
Sachar, Bradley (NIH/OD)
SacharB@OD.NIH.GOV
Wed Apr 21 20:35:00 GMT 2004
I resolved my problem.
1. When I first did the installation, I was logged on to my network. By
default, cygwin chose my network home directory (H drive) as my home
directory instead of my C drive. For some reason cygwin was not able to
write to my network drives from cron (maybe because I don't own the root on
the network drive?). I switched my home directory to my C drive (by setting
my "HOME" environment variable in windows2000 to c:\cygwin) instead of a
network directory and it worked OK.
2. I also changed my default group to Administrators instead of mkgroup-l-d
3. I needed to explicitly specify /bin/echo not just echo in the cron to
test /bin/echo "test" > $HOME/test.out
Brad
eRA Technical Advisor, Contractor to NIH
-----Original Message-----
From: PLAN Frédéric URS Lyon [mailto:frederic.plan@francetelecom.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:56 PM
To: Sachar, Bradley (NIH/OD)
Cc: 'Harig, Mark'
Subject: RE: Unable to get CRON to work
Hello,
I permit to write you directly out of context of mailing list.
Did you resolv your problem of crontab ? So maybe can you bring me good
help...
I've got the same problem, and it would be so stupid to give up cygwin
because of that.
I passed command mkgroup -l > /etc/group and mkpasswd > /etc/passwd
$ cat /etc/group
root:S-1-5-32-544:0:
SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
Aucun:S-1-5-21-796845957-823518204-725345543-513:513:
Administrateurs:S-1-5-32-544:544:Administrateur
Duplicateurs:S-1-5-32-552:552:
Invités:S-1-5-32-546:546:Invité,TsInternetUser
Opérateurs de sauvegarde:S-1-5-32-551:551:
Utilisateurs:S-1-5-32-545:545:sshd
Utilisateurs avec pouvoir:S-1-5-32-547:547:
$ cat /etc/passwd
SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
Administrateurs:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
Administrateur:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:547:U-CSOCMCAWCG\Administrateur,S-1-
5-21-796845957-823518204-725345543-500:/home/Administrateur:/bin/bash
Invité:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-CSOCMCAWCG\Invité,S-1-5-21-796845957-8
23518204-725345543-501:/home/Invité:/bin/bash
sshd:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1001:513:sshd
privsep,U-CSOCMCAWCG\sshd,S-1-5-21-796845957-823518204-725345543-1001:/var/e
mpty:/bin/bash
TsInternetUser:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1000:513:TsInternetUser,U-CSOCMCAWCG\TsI
nternetUser,S-1-5-21-796845957-823518204-725345543-1000:/home/TsInternetUser
:/bin/bash
The cron file "Administrateur" beyongs Administrateur's user :
Administrateur@csocmcawcg /var/cron/tabs
$ ls -al
total 1
drwxrwxrwt+ 2 Administ Utilisat 0 Apr 21 20:18 .
drwxrwxrwt+ 3 Administ Utilisat 0 Apr 9 18:23 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ SYSTEM 329 Apr 21 20:18 Administrateur
And in desesperation, I put all rights (777) to this file, but nothing's is
efficient.
Please, what is the best solution to activate the cron fonction ?
Scuse for my bad english langage... ;o)
Fred.
-----Message d'origine-----
De : cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]De la part
de Harig, Mark
Envoyé : mercredi 14 avril 2004 18:01
À : Sachar, Bradley (NIH/OD)
Cc : cygwin@cygwin.com
Objet : RE: Unable to get CRON to work
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 5:52 PM
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: Unable to get CRON to work
>
>
> Cygwin Support,
>
> I have done a new installation of cygwin into the C:\cygwin
> folder. CRON
> does not seem to be waking up and executing the crontab. I
> have run the
> cron_diagnose.sh program and it told me to run a cygcheck.
> Output from both
> are attached.
>
From your attached text:
>$ ls -ltr /cygdrive/h
>total 200
>-rw-r--r-- 1 sacharb mkgroup- 201884 Sep 4 2001 impacddl.zip
Notice that the group ownership is set to 'mkgroup-'.
This indicates that your entry for 'sacharb' has not
been setup completely in your /etc/passwd and /etc/group
files. This is further indicated from your attached
text:
>Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec)
>UID: 25016(sacharb) GID: 10545(mkgroup-l-d)
>10545(mkgroup-l-d)
>
>Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec)
>UID: 25016(sacharb) GID: 10545(mkgroup-l-d)
>0(root) 544(Administrators)
>545(Users) 1005(ORA_DBA) 10545(mkgroup-l-d)
The "GID: 10545(mkgroup-l-d)" is telling you to run
the mkgroup command to update your /etc/group file
(and make a corresponding change to your entry in
your /etc/passwd file). Please see the documentation
in the manual pages for the 'mkpasswd' and 'mkgroup'
commands, i.e., run "man mkpasswd" and "man mkgroup".
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