On Jun 20 01:22, Jun Iriola wrote: > Hi, >> I made a simple script that should detect if a certain service is running or not. Â Said script will run via cron. >> When I tested it and executed it manually in the command prompt, it list all Cygwin and Windows processes. But when I put it in cron, the number of services detected were not the same. Account used is the same during manual execution and also on cron. >> To get the list of services, I use this command /usr/bin/ps -efW. >> Do you have any idea why such behavior? Â Help is very much appreciated. Â Thanks. It's probably related to your user token's permissions. See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview Try using method 3, it should give full, equivalent access as in interactive mode. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple