CRON startup problems with Win2K

[pianoman at msoft dot com (Scott Cokely)]

I was looking through the mail archives for help with this, and found
a post by Jari Aalto describing my problem, but I didn't see the resolution.

The error that I get is:

    cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1062:
    The service has not been started.

The error from "cron.exe" when run on the command line is:

    seteuid: Not owner

Corinna Vinschen responded with:

>> Sure. cron needs privileges only given to SYSTEM by default.

So my question is:  What do I do to give cron these privileges?  Starting
cron as Administrator doesn't do it, and according to the README, cron
is supposed to run as SYSTEM by default.  What do I need to do to make
this work for me?

By the way, the command I'm using to create the service is as follows:

    cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e "CYGWIN=tty ntsec"

Thanks for your help, and thanks for Cygwin!

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