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Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:59:55 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.12-1
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On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 11:02:10AM +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Corinna,
> 
> > > > - Set HOME to / as last resort when no other info is
> > > > available.  (Corinna Vinschen,
> > > >   Christopher Faylor)
> > 
> > Check your /etc/passwd entry to contain a correct homedir.
> 
> That's all OK. Note that my cron jobs were working fine before I updated
> to 1.3.12-1. Apart from the update, I've not changed anything.
> 
> Cron is running as a service using the SYSTEM account (UID=18).
> /etc/passwd is readable by SYSTEM (the protection is 644).

Are you running jobs under SYSTEM or under your own account?
If SYSTEM, it needs a homedir then, too.  Or you should use
full paths to the scripts or apps called.

> What other information would be useful to help track this down?

You could debug it.

Corinna

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