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Subject: Re: CRON can't cd to HOME
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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 AT hotmail DOT com>
> To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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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