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Why would a user’s home directory be different when running a Cron job?

Kusalananda
– Kusalananda ♦

2025-06-23 20:34:11 +00:00
Commented Jun 23 at 20:34
@waltinator Thank you for your response, yesterday I had added a new finding in the question, which clearly indicates that the env variables are not causing the error, depite the running cron, and accessible script there is a specific error in the cron when calling Timmed (of clock time) tasks. Additionally I have mentioned UID, GIDs are from the running user (root).

Neail
– Neail

2025-06-24 09:56:23 +00:00
Commented Jun 24 at 9:56

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