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Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 21:52:12 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.12-1
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On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 07:56:48PM +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Corrinna,

Almost...

> On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> My reading of it is that the passwd file is read, but HOME is not set
> because it thinks it is already set!

Looks like a bug in Cygwin which happens on changing user context.

You can easily workaround it by adding a line

HOME=/home/zzalsaca

to your crontab file.

Corinna

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