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1.7.0(0.214/5/3) cron service appears to be working, but no results are found


I have been struggling to get Cygwin 1.7 cron to execute. I've been working with the admin who has rights to install Cygwin to get things set up appropriately. After another round of changing things, what I am now seeing are application event log entries that _appear_ to indicate that the cron service is running. That is, I see entries that show what appears to be the command running. The entry is listed as informational. No errors appear in the event log entry. 


However, when I try a simple thing like
12 15 * * * /usr/bin/mkdir /tmp/TEST.cron

just so I can see if things are working, the time comes and goes and the 
directory isn't created. Not only that, but /var/log/cron.log is empty as is /var/log/cygserver.log .

I am attaching the cronbug.txt file to this posting. I was wondering whether anyone could see something in the setup described that might still be causing the peculiar behavior.

One additional note. When I run the cronbug, I see these messages:
The report is written to the file ./cronbug.txt
/usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'TapiSrv': Win32 error 5
Access is denied.

WARNING: The Windows application log contains cron
related errors. Lookup the details in ./cronbug.txt

I think that the "application log" errors may be referring to the errors that were occurring when we were previously attempting to get cron running but with an incorrect user.

I have looked several times and haven't seen any errors from today; but I also still don't see the directory I was expecting to see.


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