RE: Confused about several issues with setting up cron

2013-09-24 Thread KARR, DAVID
-Original Message- From: KARR, DAVID Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 2:32 PM Subject: RE: Confused about several issues with setting up cron -Original Message- Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 12:46 PM Subject: Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron

Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron

2013-09-24 Thread bartels
On 09/24/2013 05:04 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- From: KARR, DAVID Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 2:32 PM Subject: RE: Confused about several issues with setting up cron -Original Message- Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 12:46 PM Subject: Re: Confused about

Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron

2013-09-24 Thread Steve
I would try the following methods: First make sure you are launching your local terminal with Runas Administrator checked, even if you are the Administrator user. I am also asuming you have done the normal stuff like cygcheck -c, and make sure you have not loaded duplicate dlls during your

Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron

2013-09-24 Thread bartels
On 09/24/2013 08:13 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: 15 31593 [main] crontab 8612 fhandler_base::open_fs: 0 = fhandler_disk_file::open(\??\C:\Cygwin\var\cron\tabs\dk068x, 0x8000) 21 31614 [main] crontab 8612 open: -1 = open(tabs/dk068x, 0x8000), errno 2 There you go: the process has no

Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron

2013-09-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, bartels! CYGWIN_NT-6.1 1.7.25(0.270/5/3) 2013-08-31 20:39 i686 Cygwin I want to set up a cron job, so I have to get cron configured. I'm trying to follow the instructions I can find, but I'm seeing several issues. I'm surprised that there's nothing in the user guide or the FAQ

Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron

2013-09-23 Thread bartels
On 09/23/2013 04:44 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, bartels! Greetings Andrey! By the way: SYSTEM is not a user. Since when? Since Bill Gates stopped sleeping in his garage? :) $ passwd SYSTEM passwd: unknown user SYSTEM Without knowing too much about Windows internals, I have

Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron

2013-09-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, bartels! By the way: SYSTEM is not a user. Since when? Since Bill Gates stopped sleeping in his garage? :) $ passwd SYSTEM passwd: unknown user SYSTEM Without knowing too much about Windows internals, I have always considered SYSTEM to be a context, rather than a user. Your

Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron

2013-09-23 Thread bartels
On 09/23/2013 08:08 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, bartels! By the way: SYSTEM is not a user. Since when? Since Bill Gates stopped sleeping in his garage? :) $ passwd SYSTEM passwd: unknown user SYSTEM Without knowing too much about Windows internals, I have always considered SYSTEM to

Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron

2013-09-23 Thread bartels
On 09/23/2013 08:59 PM, bartels wrote: cron-config does not accept SYSTEM as a user Hmm, looking at the script, it would seem that cron-config is capable of configuring cron to run as system. - bartels -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron

2013-09-22 Thread bartels
On 09/22/2013 03:00 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 1.7.25(0.270/5/3) 2013-08-31 20:39 i686 Cygwin I want to set up a cron job, so I have to get cron configured. I'm trying to follow the instructions I can find, but I'm seeing several issues. I'm surprised that there's nothing in the

Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron

2013-09-22 Thread bartels
On 09/22/2013 05:56 PM, bartels wrote: On 09/22/2013 03:00 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 1.7.25(0.270/5/3) 2013-08-31 20:39 i686 Cygwin I want to set up a cron job, so I have to get cron configured. I'm trying to follow the instructions I can find, but I'm seeing several issues. I'm

Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron

2013-09-22 Thread bartels
On 09/22/2013 05:56 PM, bartels wrote: On 09/22/2013 03:00 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 1.7.25(0.270/5/3) 2013-08-31 20:39 i686 Cygwin I want to set up a cron job, so I have to get cron configured. I'm trying to follow the instructions I can find, but I'm seeing several issues. I'm

Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron

2013-09-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/21/2013 9:00 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: I'm surprised that there's nothing in the user guide or the FAQ about setting up cron. I had to settle for the various questions about this on StackOverflow and others. For Cygwin packages other than the one providing the Cygwin DLL itself,

Confused about several issues with setting up cron

2013-09-21 Thread KARR, DAVID
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 1.7.25(0.270/5/3) 2013-08-31 20:39 i686 Cygwin I want to set up a cron job, so I have to get cron configured. I'm trying to follow the instructions I can find, but I'm seeing several issues. I'm surprised that there's nothing in the user guide or the FAQ about setting up cron.