Re: CRON can't cd to HOME

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Kevin M wrote:
> radski has brought this to us :
> > 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).

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> Hello,
> Hopefully I'm supposed to post at the bottom of the page. I tried adding 
> set HOME=/home/username and recieved a bad minute error? Is there some 
> trick to this..

Bottom posting is highly encouraged as well as selective trimming to keep
context for your reply and the message size manageable.

I guess we'd need to see your crontab file.

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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