Cron problem/Documentation and Setup

[Andrew DeFaria]

Larry Hall wrote:

> At 10:44 PM 8/18/2004, you wrote:
>
>> So is P or /home off limits when it comes to cron? Why did this work 
>> at my last company? I think it's probably due to the "public" share 
>> point versus "non-public" share point (which I never totally 
>> understood before) and I'm fearing that I will not be able to 
>> convince the powers that be to change it! :-(
>
> Bingo!
>
> You can always resort to running cron as you instead of 'SYSTEM'. As 
> long as you're the only user that needs to run under 'cron', that 
> should work without changing the permissions of your network shares.

I'd hate to have to resort to that!

This doesn't explain why it worked at my last company and why I could 
have sworn it used to work here up until about a week ago.
-- 
Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/