Confused about several issues with setting up cron

[bartels]

On 09/24/2013 08:13 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
>     15   31593 [main] crontab 8612 fhandler_base::open_fs: 0 = fhandler_disk_file::open(\??\C:\Cygwin\var\cron\tabs\dk068x, 0x8000)
>     21   31614 [main] crontab 8612 open: -1 = open(tabs/dk068x, 0x8000), errno 2


There you go: the process has no write access to your crontab file (C:\Cygwin\var\cron\tabs\dk068x)

Popular advice on this list is that you do not mix posix and windoze permissions.
I have fallen into that trap myself.

- bartels

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