Cron 'WRONG FILE OWNER' Problem Cygwin 1.7/Windows 7

Wed Dec 15 23:30:00 GMT 2010

On 12/15/2010 4:56 PM, Bruce Bailey wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I had been happily using 'cron' on cygwin for quite a while.  After updating
> the user password using cron-config, suddenly cron refuses to read my cron
> tab, putting 'WRONG FILE OWNER' in the Windows application log.

Have you stopped and restarted the cron service so that it's running with
the current password for baileyb?

-- 
Larry

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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