Jeremy A Redburn wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am having permissions trouble with the latest cron on Cygwin. I am > running WindowsXP and have an ssh identity file owned by me: > > -rw------- 1 Administ None 672 Oct 22 16:15 identity
It's not clear if the owner is Administrator or Administrators. Try ls -ln > The problem is that I do not seem to have read access to this file when > running a command under Administrator's crontab. Right now, I have: > > * * * * * /usr/bin/cat /tmp/identity > /tmp/identity2 2>&1 > > But /tmp/identity2 is just: > /usr/bin/cat: /tmp/identity: Permission denied > > When I run the command from the shell, it works fine. I have run `id` from > the shell and from cron and there is a minor difference: > > uid=500(Administrator) gid=513(None) groups=544(Administrators),545(Users) > uid=500(Administrator) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),545(Users) That's a big difference, and it's abnormal. Some name aliasing might be taking place. What does fgrep Administrator /etc/passwd give? You will need to provide more details, see http://cygwin.com/problems.html The workaround suggested by Brian Ford might work, but there is still an underlying problem. Pierre -- 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/