[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.12-1

[Tony Arnold]

Corrinna,

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> 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.

It looks OK to me, but I've attached it anyway. The usernmae I use is
'zzalsaca' (don;t ask why!).

> If you don't get a clue by yourself, start an
>
>   strace -o <somefile> <somesimplejob>
>
> from cron and send "somefile" to this list.

Also attached output from a cron job that just did 'echo $HOME'.

My reading of it is that the passwd file is read, but HOME is not set
because it thinks it is already set!

Regards,
Tony.
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SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-ACA-VNT\Administrator,S-1-5-21-329068152-1993962763-1202660629-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
Guest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-ACA-VNT\Guest,S-1-5-21-329068152-1993962763-1202660629-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash
zzalsaca:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1000:513:Tony Arnold,U-ACA-VNT\zzalsaca,S-1-5-21-329068152-1993962763-1202660629-1000:/home/zzalsaca:/bin/bash
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