X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: , References: <18214359.post@talk.nabble.com> <00e201c8db7f$09ff3970$2e00a8c0@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> <18218651.post@talk.nabble.com> Subject: RE: CRON can't cd to HOME Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:39:20 +0100 Message-ID: <018501c8dddb$5ee12990$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Kevin M wrote on 03 July 2008 18:31: [ snip masses of quotes] >>>> -- >>>> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >>>> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >>>> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >>>> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >>> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >>> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >>> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >>> >>> >>> > > Hello, > Hopefully I'm supposed to post at the bottom of the page. Heh, yes, but you're also supposed to trim your quote. Was there really any benefit in sending those trailers twice (well three times actually counting the fresh one at the bottom of your post) to thousands and thousands of people? > I tried > adding set HOME=/home/username and recieved a bad minute error? Is > there some trick to this.. The error message suggests you haven't got the syntax quite right; crond thinks you've put the commandline where it expects to find the number-of-minutes-past-the-hour field. Can we see your "crontab -l" output? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/