HOME can be specified in the crontab, else it is taken from /etc/passwd You may have access issues if HOME is on a network drive. If so, consider creating a different HOME on a local disk, or running cron as yourself.
Pierre ----- Original Message ----- From: "radski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <cygwin@cygwin.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 8:58 AM Subject: CRON can't cd to HOME | | Hello, | I'm trying to CRON, but I'm receiving error in the windows log saying it | "can't cd to HOME"; yet cron_diagnose.sh completes without any errors. There | doesn't seem to be much reference to this error out there, I've tried moving | home from outside of the cygwin directory to inside and changed permissions | but that does not seem to help. | | Cron service runs as Local System and I'm not sure where it takes the home | setting from ? changeing it in passwd file doesn't seem to make any | difference. | -- | View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/CRON-can%27t-cd-to-HOME-tp18214359p18214359.html | Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. | | | -- | Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple | Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html | Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html | FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ | -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
