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From:	"Michael Jervis" <mike AT skinmaster DOT co DOT uk>
To:	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Mysterious Cron error solved
Date:	Mon, 23 Jun 2003 15:35:12 +0100
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I'd been trying to get cron running for a day or three. Came accross someone
who had the EXACT same problem as me:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg00624.html

But found no solution.

Now I have solved it, so here is my solution:

/var/run was set to be owned by my user. Not the SYSTEM user. Which meant
that cron service was unable to write the cron.pid file into that folder.

A swift chmod a+w allowed me to start cron.

Hopefuly this will help someone else!

Mike


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