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Re: cron and user context
- To: "Wyant, Jaime" <jwyant at sfbcic dot com>
- Subject: Re: cron and user context
- From: egor duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 18:29:32 +0400
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Organization: deo
- References: <654DAEACA633D511B5F500902784B052188379@MS-EXCHANGE>
- Reply-To: egor duda <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
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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