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From: "Tony Arnold" <tony DOT arnold AT man DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: $HOME not set in cron jobs
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:13:04 -0000
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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.
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