Larry/Pierre I did indeed restart the cron service, but I appear to have TWO 'baileyb' users in /etc/passwd -- I'll pursue correcting that. I'm not sure how I did that, but it sure looks like a problem.
Thanks! Bruce ---------------------------------------- > Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:28:31 -0500 > To: bruce1...@hotmail.com > From: pierre.humb...@ieee.org > Subject: Re: Cron 'WRONG FILE OWNER' Problem Cygwin 1.7/Windows 7 > > Bruce, > > If the answer to my question is "yes", doesn't cron-config > produce a message such as > > Do you want the cron daemon to run as yourself? (yes/no) yes > > WARNING: User Compaq_Administrator appears 2 times in /etc/passwd. > This may confuse the system. > Edit /etc/passwd and assign unique user ids. > > Thanks > > Pierre > > At 04:56 PM 12/15/2010, you wrote: > > >Hi > > > >I had been happily using 'cron' on cygwin for quite a while. After > >updating the user password using cron-config, suddenly cron refuses > >to read my cron tab, putting 'WRONG FILE OWNER' in the Windows application > >log. > > > >Has this been seen and resolved? > > > >I have been trying for weeks now but no luck, so at this point and > >help would be appreciated. > > > >thanks in advance, > > > >Bruce > > > > > >-- > >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 > -- 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
