X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=h3qIMarSE3KgDodmP7DjSZ9NBrpazfiASBArrRCDEhi GIujftssxJBfhETmRzutGyNlEhzd5ZsfmekkuZoPJvYL/dk+EMmPfeNEZx6eW1+2 cnZPg8p90aVV9ojtGksAx0qtu5hGwY47+Qks35qsKBBOTUlvmV9eLxKLWjueMOmc = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=s8XwWvOtYaDI7p6jsIXTz3zOAIM=; b=WZNY+FarEC1PenQz6 h3gADLRYwCrEtvQR/49SMNqZ1pThkzosLcD0bAc0jN1rLVVRsE2DQbv8gRJRslNF kB21jvO78R4LHvg4+FBA8aFy6gpHC6Ozyj4GB7dYosWNZIIvKxNJgw3eC8MoVWYu dzXDyk+WnShWhnO1c/OPy/OuXQ= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: Yes, score=6.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,MISSING_HEADERS,RCVD_IN_PBL,RCVD_IN_RP_RNBL,RCVD_IN_SEMBLACK autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: konqorde.nl Message-ID: <5241E794.1080506@mailme.ath.cx> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:27:16 +0200 From: bartels User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130704 Icedove/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Subject: Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron References: <523F133D.2060806@mailme.ath.cx> <523F48E1.8070905@mailme.ath.cx> <5241CBA1.7000405@mailme.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 09/24/2013 08:13 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: > 15 31593 [main] crontab 8612 fhandler_base::open_fs: 0 = fhandler_disk_file::open(\??\C:\Cygwin\var\cron\tabs\dk068x, 0x8000) > 21 31614 [main] crontab 8612 open: -1 = open(tabs/dk068x, 0x8000), errno 2 There you go: the process has no write access to your crontab file (C:\Cygwin\var\cron\tabs\dk068x) Popular advice on this list is that you do not mix posix and windoze permissions. I have fallen into that trap myself. - bartels -- 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