Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere To: Corinna Vinschen Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 08:35:02 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: [ cron/crontab ] someone using cron on cygwin? Reply-to: gerrit.haase@t-online.de Message-ID: <3AF65E36.24444.23BE394C@localhost> In-reply-to: <20010506200657.Q24200@cygbert.vinschen.de> References: <3AF33F9B.24184.178EAE0B@localhost>; from gerrit.haase@t-online.de on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:47:39PM +0200 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) X-Sender: 320081107336-0001@t-dialin.net Corinna Vinschen schrieb am 2001-05-06, 20:06: Hi Corinna, > > I recreated it a dozen times: > > > > siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~ > > $ crontab > > crontab: can't obtain passwd entry. > > > > siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~ > > $ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd > > > > siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~ > > $ crontab > > crontab: can't obtain passwd entry. > > > > from passwd: > > Siebenschlaefer::500:513:Gerrit Haase,S-1-5-21-2027841136-734554988-996637233-500:/home/siebenschlaefer:/bin/bash > > > > siebenschlaefer@LORELEY ~ > > $ id > > uid=500(siebenschlaefer) gid=544(Administratoren) groups=544(Administratoren),544(Administratoren) > > You will have to debug that. > > Corinna > It works now if logged in as a user (news), but only if invoked: $ crontab -e in editor mode. Another question, invoked by cron, the application starts up and i get a pid which i am able to see in 'taskmanager' but if I call ps at commandline, it is not shown? Is that a known issue? gph -- =^..^= -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple