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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
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