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Problem w/ cron


Hi there,

I am having permissions trouble with the latest cron on Cygwin. I am
running WindowsXP and have an ssh identity file owned by me:

-rw-------    1 Administ None          672 Oct 22 16:15 identity

The problem is that I do not seem to have read access to this file when
running a command under Administrator's crontab. Right now, I have:

* * * * * /usr/bin/cat /tmp/identity > /tmp/identity2 2>&1

But /tmp/identity2 is just:
/usr/bin/cat: /tmp/identity: Permission denied

When I run the command from the shell, it works fine. I have run `id` from
the shell and from cron and there is a minor difference:

uid=500(Administrator) gid=513(None) groups=544(Administrators),545(Users)
uid=500(Administrator) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),545(Users)

If anyone has any ideas, or needs further information, please let me know.

Thanks,
Jeremy

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