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Re: CRON generates a lot of errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Youngman)
Fri Nov 29 08:49:37 1996
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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Date: 29 Nov 1996 13:45:52 GMT
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In article <57mp2p$s6i@halon.vggas.com>, Erik.Kunze@philosys.de says...
>I'm running RH4.0/Intel with INN installed. As you know, there are
>two crontab entries under /etc/cron.daily/*inn*. They generate
>a lot of error messages when running from cron. Mostly they say
>"cd_links: cannot get current working directory".
>
>It's seems to be a pronlem with directory permissions, but I don't
>knwo where to start searching. I'm sure that I haven't "chmod"
>any news file.
Check the permissions on ~news/ ~news/.., ~news/../.. all the way up to /.
Make sure that all these directories are readable and executable to "news" (in
fact, anybody, probably).
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