On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:13:13AM -0500, Harig, Mark wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > > Glad it's fixed. > > > > Hey Mark, care to add another test to cron_diagnose? > > (see sample in postinstall/exim.sh.done) > > > > Pierre > > > > As I reported earlier, there are already two tests for this. > > Please see lines 254 through 272 of version 1.7 > of cron_diagnose.sh. I must be misunderstanding this > problem because I cannot see why these tests do not > detect the error condition.
The existing tests check the group of the crontab file. The problem reported here is that gid 18 was missing from /etc/group file. It is possible that it was accidentally deleted after the crontab file had been successfully created. 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/