cron does not do anything

[Pierre A. Humblet]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ting Zhou" <>
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:20 PM


Right on, Pierre! Thanks a lot for the clue. Finally I figured it out. There were two problems.

The first problem, yes, I was a bit impatient and should've waited one more minute. It seems 
crontab change does take more than one minute to be effective. Once I changed it to "* * * * *", 
I saw an error message in /var/log/messages saying "(CRON) error (can't cd to HOME)", which is 
the second problem. For the record, my cygwin auto-generated /etc/passwd shows my home dir to be 
"/cygdrive/h", which is an NT mounted share - not sure why is it set to that and why cron 
couldn't cd to it. Anyway, I changed it to "/home/tzhou" and viola, the cron is working.

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To be able to use /cygdrive/h try running cron as yourself.
That's an option in cron-config

Pierre 


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