Strange Crond behavior

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 05:47 AM 4/1/2002, Michael Lang wrote:
>Hello to all 
>
>Sorry for bothering but I didn´t find an issue for these strange behavior of the Crond .
>
>Does someone knows why using cron as service doesn't start any scheduled tasks ? Event Error :
>
>Using /usr/sbin/cron -D 
>  > seteuid: Not owner

<snip>


>0x9D0 : Cygwin Process Id = 0x9D0 : (CRON) error (can't switch user context).


The problem?  Looks like the same old one to me.  You're not running cron as
SYSTEM.  It seems many folks don't follow directions and don't check the email
archives when they have a problem as a result.  Read the README and follow 
the instructions there.  If you still have problems, check the email archives
for similar questions.  There should be plenty of information in these two 
avenues to solve this issue.  If not, you'll need to be more specific about 
why the standard configuration doesn't work for you.


Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX


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