Cygwin,

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Upon installing Cygwin and cron on a new Windows Server 2019 machine,
we are unable to get cron to work.

I installed cron using cron-config. Cron is configured to run under
account cyg_server, which cron-config set up. cron-config reported
that "cyg_server is a valid privileged account".

From cronevents, I see numerous errors saying "can't switch user
context". It looks like every time cron tries to run a job, it emits
one of these errors.

Example:
> 2021/07/15 18:45:02 [cyg_server] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 6421: (CRON) error (can't switch user context)

See attached for cronbug output.

I tried rebooting the machine, but this did not help.

How can we get cron to work on this new machine?

Please copy me on any responses; thank you.

Thanks,
Jeremy Hetzler

Business Data Analyst

CHABASO

360 James Street, New Haven, CT