rsync can run in command line but not in cron

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

lin q wrote:
> Hi,
>  I just installed lastest cygwin on windows xp service pack 1.
> 
>  I enabled cron in cygwin, the crontab looks like this,
> 
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.3548 installed on Wed Oct  4 19:11:00 2006)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41 corinna Exp $)
> USER=toma
> USERNAME=toma
> HOME=/cygdrive/c/home/toma
> HOMEDRIVE=C:
> UID=toma
> 12 19 * * * /usr/bin/rsync -azvv /cygdrive/u/ /cygdrive/c/bin/swtools > 
> /tmp/swtools.cron 2>&1
> 
> 
>  But it does not work, I check the log file, it is like this,
> 
> building file list ...
> rsync: link_stat "/cygdrive/u/." failed: No such file or directory (2)
> done
> 
>  It looks like it can not work with path like /cygdrive/u, this is a 
> network drive.
> 
>  The problem is I can run the exact command in command line.
> 
>  Do you know why cron make difference on the path?

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