Please try running this diagnostic script to see if it can help identify the cause of your problem:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00711.html > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan London [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 11:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: cron + network share(w/ full access?) > > > Hello and Happy New Year. > > Would it be possible to see your altered /etc/passwd? > I must be doing something wrong. I've made my user > have uid 18, put his entry before SYSTEM, and I still > get the same 1062 error when starting the cron service > as that user. > > I've been banging my head against the wall on the > cron-job-accessing-network-shares problem for a couple > days now :) I'm glad I found this thread, it's given > me some hope. > > Can anyone verify that they've got this trick/hack to > work in the current version of cygwin cron? > > Thanks in advance, > Alan > > ------------ > > Right. Looks like 18 is hardwired in cron. > > So after you create that user and update the > /etc/passwd file you would need to edit > > /etc/password and change the uid of the user to 18. > With a little bit of luck > > the setuid(18) will be a noop. > > Try keeping the SYSTEM uid to 18, too, for now. It's > probably hardwired too. > > My head is spinning and I don't have the time to > sort through all the implications. > > ok, changing the uid to 18 in the passwd file did it. > > thanks a lot! > > thanks to all the Cygwin developers, it's a fantastic > tool! > > --tim > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. > http://photos.yahoo.com/ > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/