Pierre, fantastic help, can't thank you enough - I didn't realize you could explicitly set HOME in the crontab - adding
set HOME=/home/xuser worked a treat. For future reference the error is below, hope it helps someone when they google this. The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: /usr/sbin/cron: PID 966380: (CRON) error (can't cd to HOME). Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > 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/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/CRON-can%27t-cd-to-HOME-tp18214359p18218651.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/
