cron won't execute tasks

[Robert Pollard]

On Oct 28, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Larry Hall wrote:

> At 08:22 PM 10/28/2004, you wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> This problem is driving me insane (I don't have far to go ;-).
>>
>> Configuration:
>> Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition, quad processor, 12 GB RAM.  Just 
>> downloaded Cygwin a few days ago.  So, it should be the latest.
>>
>> The possible root cause:
>> BTW, I am trying to run cron as a service.
>> Our IT person installed Cygwin under a domain account.  Cron would 
>> run every minute but wouldn't switch user context.  So, I had him 
>> re-install Cygwin under a new local account that was assigned to the 
>> Windows Administrators group.
>
>
>
> In addition to what Igor said, make sure you've read
> '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README'.  'crond' won't be able to switch 
> users
> if your service isn't run as SYSTEM.  Running it as a member of the 
> Domain
> Users and/or Administrators is of no value/use.

Actually, the only way I can get cron to execute tasks as a service is 
to indicate the login to be the current user.  Otherwise, if I set it 
to allow the SYSTEM account to be used it will return an error in the 
system log indicating it couldn't switch user context.
Any ideas why?

Thanks!

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