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Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:07:11 -0400
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
Subject: Re: CRON can't cd to HOME
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin M" <>
To: <cygwin>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: CRON can't cd to HOME


| radski has brought this to us :
| > Pierre,
| >
| > fantastic help, can't thank you enough - I didn't realize you could
| > explicitly set HOME in the crontab - adding 
| >
| > set HOME=/home/xuser
| >
| | 
| Hello,
| Hopefully I'm supposed to post at the bottom of the page. I tried 
| adding set HOME=/home/username and recieved a bad minute error? Is 
| there some trick to this..
| 
| Thanks!
| 

More likely radski added
HOME=/home/xuser
i.e. without "set"

Pierre


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