RE: [ cron/crontab ] someone using cron on cygwin?

["David Larsson (ERA)" <David dot Larsson at era dot ericsson dot se>]

I had the same problem as vzell, I got the 2245 Unrecoverable error when running crontab. But my problems didn't stop with that, I can't start cron as a W2k service despite that I'm using srvany and have made the reg hacks specified by a posting on Windows 2000 magazine. 

I can start cron from within cygwin though but now I got "crontab: Unrecoverable error 1351" when I try to start it.

Does anyone have the same experience or better yet, a solution? That would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

///David



-----Original Message-----
From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com]
Sent: den 4 maj 2001 20:30
To: Corinna Vinschen
Subject: Re: [ cron/crontab ] someone using cron on cygwin?


On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:14:04PM +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> >>>>> "Corinna" == Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com> writes:
> 
>     Corinna> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:38:47AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>     >> Dear Corinna,
>     >> 
>     >> $ crontab
>     >> crontab: can't obtain passwd entry.
> 
>     Corinna> You don't have a /etc/passwd entry for your user account.
>     Corinna> crontab tries to get your passwd entry by calling
> 
>     Corinna> 	struct passwd *pw = getpwuid (geteuid ());
> 
>     Corinna> So check your user id (/bin/id) and add an entry for your
>     Corinna> user id to /etc/passwd. Or, even better, call mkpasswd to
>     Corinna> recreate /etc/passwd.
> 
> Corinna I get the following error when using your crontab:
> 
> vzell@VZELL /tmp
> [502]> crontab
> You must enter your Windows password.
> Otherwise, your crontab entries can't be executed.
> Password:
> crontab: Unrecoverable error 2245.

That's funny. Did you check error 2245?

"The password does not meet the password policy requirements. Check the
 minimum password length, password complexity andpassword history
 requirements."

The problem is that crontab validates the password you've entered by
calling `NetUserChangePassword'. It tries to change your password
from the password you've entered to the same password. For some
reason your password doesn't actually meet some policy which is
valid on your system. If you don't want that check you'll have to
rebuild crontab.

Corinna

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