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Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> At 03:44 PM 2/16/2010, Patrick Rynhart wrote:
>> I'm on Windows Server 2003 and carefully read through
>> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-4.1-57.README prior to configuring cron.
>> The guide discusses how a privileged user account is required in order
>> to run cron.  The script  /usr/bin/cron-config gives you the option of
>> creating a user account on behalf (e.g. cyg_server) or using your own
>> account, i.e.
> 
> Good point, will do.

Actually, this might be a csih thing... I won't be able to look into it
until next week sometime, so...PTC.

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Chuck

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