I'm trying unsuccesfully to get cron to work under 64-bit cywin under Win7 Pro. First, I tried running as myself (running cygwin with system administrator privilege):
$ cron-config Do you want to install the cron daemon as a service? (yes/no) yes Enter the value of CYGWIN for the daemon: [ ] Do you want the cron daemon to run as yourself? (yes/no) yes WARNING: User dkertz appears 2 times in /etc/passwd. This may confuse the system Edit /etc/passwd and assign unique user ids. Please enter the password for user 'dkertz': Reenter: Running cron_diagnose ... WARNING: You do not currently have a crontab file. ... no problem found. Do you want to start the cron daemon as a service now? (yes/no) yes cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: StartService: Win32 error 1069: The service did not start due to a logon failure. >From the above you can see the warning about my login appearing twice in /etc/passwd: $ grep dkertz /etc/passwd dkertz:unused:1003:513:dkertz,U-USNAVN0D011H46\dkertz, S-1-5-21-2470246883-414681431-158823764-1003:/home/dkertz:/bin/bash dkertz:unused:295587:10513:U-NA02\dkertz, S-1-5-21-2112754840-354624142-596004286-285587:/home/dkertz:/bin/bash USNAVN0D011H46 is the PC machine name and NA02 is the domain set up by corporate IT. Does this suggest IT has messed up? I log into the PC using the na02\dkertz login. Thinking this login duplication might be the problem, I changed /etc/passwd to contain only the first login and then only the second login with the same results - logon failure when running cron-config. ------------------------ Next, I decided to try running cron under the password -R option: First, I ran the /usr/bin/cygserver-config and verified the service was running using services.msc. Then I ran password -R. The the cron config: $ cron-config Cron is already installed as a service under account .\cyg_server. Do you want to remove or reinstall it? (yes/no) yes OK. The cron service was removed. Do you want to install the cron daemon as a service? (yes/no) yes Enter the value of CYGWIN for the daemon: [ ] You must decide under what account the cron daemon will run. Do you want the cron daemon to run as yourself? (yes/no) no Were the passwords of all cron users saved with "passwd -R", or are you using the cyglsa package ? (yes/no) yes The cron daemon will run as SYSTEM. Running cron_diagnose ... ... no problem found. Do you want to start the cron daemon as a service now? (yes/no) yes OK. The cron daemon is now running. Now the cron runs but a scheduled cron job doesn't run and this is what the cronevents shows: 2014/08/15 19:41:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 4692: (dkertz) WRONG FILE OWNER (tabs/dkertz) --------------------- Anybody have any suggestions or advice? Could the problem be that corporate IT has somehow messed up the PC, as the duplicate login in /etc/passwd might be the case. Denis -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple