This presumes the user erika will be processing jobs and has a valid account on EITS.  As the user erika setup the cron daemon.

1. Starting at Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy-> Local Policies -> User Rights Assignment
   Grant rights to the group Administrators for the following items:
   • Adjust memory quotas for a process
   • Create a token object
   • Log on as service
   • Replace process level token
2. Create a con service for user erika

   cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -u erika
   

   You will be prompted for your password. Change this to the same password you use to login to EITS.

This cron service should now come up as a service in Windows. Check this by launching services. Starting at Start->Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services, you should see that the service has been entered: 

1. Open the permission of the cron.log file for all users. This appears to be a bug in the cygwin version of cron.

    chmod a+rwx /var/log/cron.log
   

2. Next, start the service with:

   cygrunsrv -S cron
   

   If the service doesn't start,  note that only one cron service  is allowed to run under cygin so make sure other cron services are not running.

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