On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:24:37 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > crontab chowns the crontab file group to 18. Make sure that gid 18 > is in /etc/group. Also I find it hard to believe that the strace you > got gives no useful information.
This did it. Group 18 (SYSTEM) was not in /etc/group; instead, /etc/group only contained domain groups, not local groups. I ran 'mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group' to recreate the file. Re strace: the strace gave (something like) this entry about the chown() call: 165 14525235 [main] crontab 2600 chown_worker: -1 = chown (tabs/tmp.002600,...) This didn't give me enough information to figure out the missing parameters. I believe crontab should print more verbose error output for its critical failures. Thanks for the tip. I would have found this out this evening if I had to; you saved me a good 30 minutes. Thanks again! -- Barry -- 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/