Cygwin Cron not running

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Jonathan O'Leary wrote:
> Thanks for the info, however, I'm a bit confused. In cronbug it states
> that the permissions are:
> 
> -rwxrwx--- 1 lumcon mkgroup-l-d 244 May 30 14:45 /var/cron/tabs/lumcon
> 
> However, when I run a ls -al I get:
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 lumcon mkgroup-l-d 244 May 30 14:45 /var/cron/tabs/lumcon
> 
> How/why are they different? And how can I change the permissions of this
> file to get them correct? I'm not familiar with how chmod works in cygwin,
> because using the 3 numbers as in unix does not work.

Define "does not work".

Sounds to me like you could have some look-alike versions of your tools
around.  What does 'which ls' say?  What does 'which chmod' say?  Perhaps
you could show us this followed by calling 'chmod'?

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