[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.12-1

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 05:50:50PM +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Test jobs show that $HOME is being set to / when the cron job works.
> $HOME is set correctly for bash sessions run interactively via rxvt or
> whatever.

Really check for the homedir in your /etc/passwd file again.  This
setting HOME to "/" should only happen if neither HOME nor /etc/passwd
are set correctly.

If you don't get a clue by yourself, start an

  strace -o <somefile> <somesimplejob>
  
from cron and send "somefile" to this list.

Corinna

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