X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=6.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <0LDH0087APTKUKT5@vms173001.mailsrvcs.net> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:15:12 -0500 To: Bruce Bailey , From: "Pierre A. Humblet" Subject: Re: Cron 'WRONG FILE OWNER' Problem Cygwin 1.7/Windows 7 In-reply-to: References: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com At 04:56 PM 12/15/2010, Bruce Bailey 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? Do you have two baileyb users, one with uid 32638 and owning the crontab and another one with uid 1006 and being setuid by cron? -rw-r----- 1 baileyb root 1173 2010-12-13 07:51 /var/cron/tabs/baileyb -rw-r----- 1 32638 0 1173 2010-12-13 07:51 /var/cron/tabs/baileyb Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe UID: 1006(baileyb) GID: 513(None) 513(None) 0(root) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) 30633(por_ccusers) Pierre -- 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