Thanks for the info, however, I'm a bit confused. In cronbug it states that the permissions are:
-rwxrwx--- 1 lumcon mkgroup-l-d 244 May 30 14:45 /var/cron/tabs/lumcon However, when I run a ls -al I get: -rw-r--r-- 1 lumcon mkgroup-l-d 244 May 30 14:45 /var/cron/tabs/lumcon How/why are they different? And how can I change the permissions of this file to get them correct? I'm not familiar with how chmod works in cygwin, because using the 3 numbers as in unix does not work. Again, I really appreciate the help. Thanks! Jonathan O'Leary Systems Analyst/Banner Support Harford Community College 410-836-4188 >>> Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/30/2008 2:08 PM >>> Jonathan O'Leary wrote: > I have a cron.log file in /var/log, however it is empty. Also, the contents > of /tmp is empty as well. Currently I am trying to run 2 jobs, one is a > shell script and one is a simple echo command to a file to see if I can get > anything to work. Neither of the jobs run. Here is the output of my crontab > -l (Both of these command work fine if run from the command line). The problem is right there in your log: 2008/05/30 13:37:01 [lumcon] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 1424: (lumcon) BAD FILE MODE (tabs/lumcon) cron won't run jobs from a tab that is world-writable, as that's a pretty gaping security hole: -rwxrwxrwx 1 lumcon mkgroup-l-d 369 May 30 13:36 /var/cron/tabs/lumcon Also, you should consider fixing your /etc/group file since a group of 'mkgroup-l-d' means there are missing entries. Brian -- 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/
