X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <49EE48E5.7070101@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:29:57 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090101 Remi/2.0.0.19-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cron does not do anything References: <1255DA8CFF890A44B8F034ADB81D1A6031B1A274D2@guardianmx.guardian.lan> <01c901c9c2a5$d07ec0d0$940410ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> <1255DA8CFF890A44B8F034ADB81D1A6031B1A274E2@guardianmx.guardian.lan> <020c01c9c2c3$f71687f0$940410ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> <1255DA8CFF890A44B8F034ADB81D1A6031B1A2751F@guardianmx.guardian.lan> In-Reply-To: <1255DA8CFF890A44B8F034ADB81D1A6031B1A2751F@guardianmx.guardian.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Ting Zhou wrote: > 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. The answer to the former is that it's likely your Windows environment defines HOME already as 'h:'. See the FAQ link below for more info: The answer to the latter can be found at the link below: -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/