I believe the root cause is that the CYGWIN environment variable needs to be set to include NTSEC.
The instructions in /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README include this command: cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D That will not always work A command that works better is: cygrunsrv -I cron -d "Cron" -p /usr/sbin/cron -a "-D" -e "CYGWIN=binmode ntsec tty" or, alternatively, you can set the CYGWIN environment variable another way. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
