Problem with installing crontab on Cygwin(1.5.11/1005.11.0.0)/WinXP SP2

Tue Nov 2 17:36:00 GMT 2004

I'm getting the following error when trying to install a crontab on my account:
$ crontab -e
# editing my crontab here...
chown: Invalid argument
I've tried updating my passwd (I live on a Win2K server domain) file
in case it was out of date or missing local users (vs domain users),
using
$ mkpasswd -d -l -g > /etc/passwd
In case it makes a difference, my home directory does not correspond
to my username, so I edited the passwd file just after running
mkpasswd. However, I still get the same problem. I've tried fiddling
with the ownership of /var/cron/tabs in case that was a problem, but I
then got "access denied" errors, so I backed off.
Cron is currently running on my system, and was installed with:
~$ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron.exe -a -D
I stopped and started it again after changing /etc/passwd. Process
Explorer tells me cron is running under the local SYSTEM account.
I've run 'strace crontab saved' and inspected the output; the chown
syscall is returning -1, but it doesn't seem to give me any more
information.
Any ideas?
-- Barry
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