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Re: Problem with installing crontab on Cygwin(1.5.11/1005.11.0.0)/WinXP SP2
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:13:13AM -0500, Harig, Mark wrote:
> > >
> > > This did it. Group 18 (SYSTEM) was not in /etc/group; instead,
> > > /etc/group only contained domain groups, not local groups. I ran
> > > 'mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group' to recreate the file.
> >
> > Glad it's fixed.
> >
> > Hey Mark, care to add another test to cron_diagnose?
> > (see sample in postinstall/exim.sh.done)
> >
> > Pierre
> >
>
> As I reported earlier, there are already two tests for this.
>
> Please see lines 254 through 272 of version 1.7
> of cron_diagnose.sh. I must be misunderstanding this
> problem because I cannot see why these tests do not
> detect the error condition.
The existing tests check the group of the crontab file.
The problem reported here is that gid 18 was missing
from /etc/group file. It is possible that it was accidentally
deleted after the crontab file had been successfully created.
Pierre
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