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 Message-ID: <3B0A5A28.F310222C@lightbridge.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 08:23:04 -0400 From: Louis Bohm Reply-To: lbohm@lightbridge.com Organization: Lightbridge Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: crontab: can't obtain passwd entry References: <3B090405.B1D2BE14@lightbridge.com> <20010522095255.B27460@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I did do a mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd and a mkgroup -l > /etc/group. After I did that I tried the crontab -e and sill had the problem. Then I tried to do something smart, or so I though, and run gdb crontab. Unfortunately gdb has problems with crontab. Louis Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:03:18AM -0400, Louis Bohm wrote: > > I am getting the above when trying to run corncob -e. The manage > > When crontab is started it tries to get your /etc/passwd entry. > There is none. Fix your /etc/passwd (mkpasswd). > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com > Red Hat, Inc. > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- ¤¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ ¤°`°Lightbridge, Inc ¤°`°67 South Bedford St. ¤°`°Burlington MA 01832 ¤°`°781.359.4795 mailto:lbohm@lightbridge.com ¤°`°http://www.lightbridge.com ¤¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple