crontab 1.12 issuing error about

["Larry W. Virden" <lvirden at yahoo dot com>]

My administrator has been trying to get the cron service to run on our cygwin 1.7 environments. After installing the various packages, he performed the permission changes on my machine on /etc/passwd, 
/etc/group, /var, /var/cron, /var/cron/tab. 

When cron-config runs, he sees:
$ cron-config
Cron is already installed as a service under account CAS\Olentangy.
Do you want to remove or reinstall it? (yes/no) no
Running cron_diagnose ...
... no problem found.

Do you want to start the cron daemon as a service now? (yes/no) yes
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: StartService:  Win32 error 1069:
The service did not start due to a logon failure.


In case of problem, examine the log file for cron,
/var/log/cron.log, and the Windows event log (using /usr/bin/cronevents)
for information about the problem cron is having.

Examine also any cron.log file in the HOME directory
(or the file specified in MAILTO) and cron related files in /tmp.

If you cannot fix the problem, then report it to cygwin@cygwin.com.
Please run the script /usr/bin/cronbug and ATTACH its output
(the file cronbug.txt) to your e-mail.

WARNING: PATH may be set differently under cron than in interactive shells.
         Names such as "find" and "date" may refer to Windows programs.


We looked for /var/log/cron.log, looked through the output of /usr/bin/cronevents, looked in the HOME directory, and looked in /tmp, but didn't find anything in the directories, and cronevents only lists the editing of crontab files.

Then, he ran 

$  cygrunsrv.exe -S cron
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: StartService:  Win32 error 1069:
The service did not start due to a logon failure.

(He is logged in as ntsa13; I am logged in as lwv27).

Next, per the instructions, I ran cronbug. This gave me a file, which I'm attaching, and the following error was output to stderr rather than into the file.


/cygdrive/c/products/cygwin_1.7/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'TapiSrv': Win32 error 5
Access is denied.

I've checked the events viewer on this machine, and the only crontab related events are the ones mentioned in the cronevents output, which are, as I mentioned, the BEGIN EDIT, REPLACE, END EDIT, LIST messages.

We are not certain what the next step should be. 

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Attachment: cronbug.txt
Description: Text document

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