Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Tony Arnold" To: Subject: $HOME not set in cron jobs Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:13:04 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal X-Authenticated-Sender: Anthony C Arnold, Tony Arnold from aca-vnt.mcc.ac.uk (acavnt) [130.88.201.150] X-Authenticated-From: Tony.Arnold@man.ac.uk Dear All, Since upgrading to Cygwin 1.3.4-4, my cron jobs have stopped working in that commands executed in a cron job to not expand $HOME or ~ correctly. A command of 'echo $HOME' in a cron job produces one line of '/', where as it used to produce '/home/zzalsaca'. Can anyone else reproduce this problem and if so suggest a solution? Many thanks. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, Deputy to the Head of COS Division, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E-mail: tony.arnold@man.ac.uk, Home: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/