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Re: cygrunsrv: cron context switch problem


On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:10:59PM +0200, alper wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Platform is W2K, user is a member of Administrators group.
> Cron is installed as a service and started as follows:
> 
> cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
> cygrunsrv -S cron
> 
> Services applet in MMC shows cron service is installed under LocalSystem
> account and started.
> /etc/group has SYSTEM entry with gid 18.
> $CYGWIN is 'ntsec'
> crontab has a "ls -l" command that gets scheduled every 5 minutes.
> 
> But, I see the following in event log every 5 minutes:
> "...(CRON) error (can't switch user context)."
> 
> 
> Can anybody comment on this?

The mailing list archive, perhaps?

Corinna

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