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Date:	Mon, 07 Jan 2002 10:07:45 -0500
To:	aa ww <edwardlarie AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject:	Re: permission problem with crons
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At 09:00 PM 1/6/2002, aa ww wrote:
>Hi Cygwin,
>
>I tried to run a cron job as follows:
>
>$ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e
>CYGWIN="tty ntsec"
>$ cygrunsrv -S cron
>
>The crons starts, I checked this by ps -ef. But, when
>i tried to add a cronjob by 
>crontab -e 
>and type 
>40 10 * * * /home/admin/cron.sh 
>
>then it gave me this errors:
>crontab:installin new crontab
>crontab:error renaming tabs/tmp.000864 to tabs/admin
>rename: Permission denied
>
>I can not delete the error files in the var/cron/tabs
>foler too even I logged on as admin. Any help ?? 


Are you sure these files aren't open exclusively by some process?
Windows opens files exclusively by default and one cannot rename or
remove files opened in this way.


Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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