cron problems seem to be reported regularly. I have one suggestion: could the cron_diagnose.sh script of Mark Harig be turned into a cron-config script distributed with cron? In addition of going through the list of checks, it should also start cron, taking into account Windows 2003 peculiarities as ssh-host-config and exim-config (among others) already do.
Of course it's up to Mark and Corinna to agree/coordinate that transformation. Pierre At 06:18 PM 2/25/2004 -0500, you wrote: > >Pierre, > >Windows Task Manager reports the user as SYSTEM for all cygrunsrv >processes and their children (cron, inetd, etc.). Interestingly enough, >I regenerated the /etc/passwd entry for my user login on my Windows XP >Pro box at work and the UID field changed from what it was before (after >I sent the initial problem email to the Cygwin list). Then, I rebooted >and all Cygwin related services (cygrunsrvs) were now identified as >unknown user 400 in ps -ef. As one would then expect, now I do not have >any capabilities associated with these services, including ftp, telnet, >and IPC. > >My /etc/passwd file has the SYSTEM, Administrators and my personal >account listed as: > >SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: >Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: >winwa02:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:70656:10513:Winch Jr., Wayne >S,U-TANT-A01\winwa02,S-1-5-21-2129867641-919698055-327642922-60656:/home >/winwa02:/bin/bash > >My company's domain is TANT-A01 and my username is winwa02. > >Also, if I type passwd, then I get the following response: > >$ passwd >passwd: unknown user winwa02 > > >As you can see, my login entry is in /etc/passwd, but I seem to be >logged in as a different user, even though id reports: > >$ id >uid=70656(winwa02) gid=10513(Domain Users) >groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),143344(442-SC-CRO-R),106908(98-Sit >e),10513(Domain Users),162415(NASiteGroups),169978(North American Sites) > > >Regards, > >Wayne > > >>Wayne, >> >>The only reason why a Cygwin process runs with uid 400 >>is that its SID was not found in /etc/passwd when first >>starting from Windows (you can observe that by temporarily >>renaming /etc/passwd and starting a fresh Cygwin process). >>It's stange that this happens only for one cygrunsrv process >> >>Please use the Windows Task Manager ("Processes" tab) and >>report the User of the strange cygrunsrv, according to Windows. >> >>Pierre >