First off - I have read the mailing lists, this is more of a moan.... Having in initially set up my cron service to run as SYSTEM by default I came across the issue where it couldn't access my java installation because it was on a network drive.
So - I then tried using a user who has access to the domain to install cron with. That user wasn't recognised when I installed the cron service, so i had to create a local user with the same name in the hope it might pick up the domain users rights. Thinking I was getting somewhere I then came across the issue where running crontab -e screwed up the rights on the cron file hence breaking any chance my job had of running (as described in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00743.html). This pretty much makes cron unuseable for me on windows so I'm looking around other solutions now. I really think this info shoudl be in the cron readme so people don't waste valuable time trying to show horn it into action. I also found this post - but unfortunately pointing people back at the mailing lists doesn't help a lot :) http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg00649.html ___________________________________________________________ Tiscali Broadband from 14.99 with free setup! http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadband/ -- 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/
