cron and user context

egor duda deo@logos-m.ru
Thu Aug 2 07:33:00 GMT 2001


Hi!

Thursday, 02 August, 2001 Wyant, Jaime jwyant@sfbcic.com wrote:

WJ> When cron reads a users crontab, does it do something similar to: "su
WJ> username"?

yes.

WJ> If cron does execute programs as the owner of each crontab, then should I be
WJ> able to see all of the "shares" that are available to that user?

yes.

WJ> I have a share mapped to drive "H" but the shell scripts I am running via
WJ> cron keep getting "access is denied" messages when I try to output to my "H"
WJ> drive.  

you can't use mapped drive names. use UNC paths, i.e. \\server\share\path\to\file.ext
instead. This holds true for any windows program that changes user
context, not for only cygwin ones.

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19


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