On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 09:04:38AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > cron logs to syslog, which by default uses the Windows log and which you > can read directly in Windows or filter with cronevents.
Good to know for the future. > It's the first time I can recall where this is a problem, except for the > double entry in passwd. Do you use the crontab program to edit the crontab? Yes. I've never hand edited the output file created by crontab, always crontab -e. > It makes sure all ownerships/permissions are correct. Then it is doing a lousy job of it, otherwise it wouldn't bitch about ownership permissions. After I did a reboot, cron was no longer running as me, but as UID 0, so it started complainging about ownership again. As noted in a followup posting, I reverted back to 1.5 and all is well. MB -- e-mail: vid...@vidiot.com | vid...@vidiot.net /~\ The ASCII [I've been to Earth. I know where it is. ] \ / Ribbon Campaign [And I'm gonna take us there. Starbuck 3/25/07] X Against Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/ | http://vidiot.net/ / \ HTML Email -- 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