CRON can't cd to HOME

[Kevin M]

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).
>
>
> 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" <radomil@hotmail.com>
>> 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.
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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..

Thanks!




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