RE: CRON can't cd to HOME

2008-07-04 Thread Dave Korn
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Re: CRON can't cd to HOME

2008-07-03 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: "Kevin M" <> To: Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:31 PM Subject: Re: CRON can't cd to HOME | radski has brought this to us : | > Pierre, | > | > fantastic help, can't thank you enough - I didn't realize you coul

Re: CRON can't cd to HOME

2008-07-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Kevin M wrote: 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. Th

Re: CRON can't cd to HOME

2008-07-03 Thread 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

Re: CRON can't cd to HOME

2008-07-01 Thread radski
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 ( /u

Re: CRON can't cd to HOME

2008-07-01 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: