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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:48:02 -0500
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Subject: Re: rond: PID 3080: (*system*) WRONG FILE OWNER (/etc/crontab)
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On 11/05/2009 08:19 PM, nwpu053821 AT gmail DOT com wrote:
> it seems that the file /etc/crontab must be owned by root. But there
> is not a root user in my computer.
> How could solve the problem? Do i have to create a root user for windows?

Be careful.  Things are not always as they first seem.

I'm going to go straight to asking you to read and follow the problem reporting
guidelines found here first:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

In the meantime, I'll live dangerously as well and presume that you're not
running 'crond' as the same user that owns '/etc/crontab'.  The fix to that 
problem
is to change the owner of '/etc/crontab' to that of the user 'crond' runs 
as.  For
instance, if you're running 'crond' as a service on WinXP, that user is 
likely to be
'system'.  This is not, however, the only option so it depends on how you've
configured 'crond'.  Hence my original pointer above.

FWIW, there is no significance to 'root' on Windows.  Actually, you may have 
'root'
as a group now (depending on your Cygwin installation).  But having this is 
not the
answer to your problem, whatever that is.

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