I'm getting the following error when trying to install a crontab on my account:
$ crontab -e # editing my crontab here... chown: Invalid argument I've tried updating my passwd (I live on a Win2K server domain) file in case it was out of date or missing local users (vs domain users), using $ mkpasswd -d -l -g > /etc/passwd In case it makes a difference, my home directory does not correspond to my username, so I edited the passwd file just after running mkpasswd. However, I still get the same problem. I've tried fiddling with the ownership of /var/cron/tabs in case that was a problem, but I then got "access denied" errors, so I backed off. Cron is currently running on my system, and was installed with: ~$ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron.exe -a -D I stopped and started it again after changing /etc/passwd. Process Explorer tells me cron is running under the local SYSTEM account. I've run 'strace crontab saved' and inspected the output; the chown syscall is returning -1, but it doesn't seem to give me any more information. Any ideas? -- Barry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/