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Re: Is cron not working on Solaris Athena?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Tue Oct 23 13:44:32 2001

Message-Id: <200110231743.NAA01828@multics.mit.edu>
To: Thomas E Cavin <cavin@mit.edu>
cc: Athena Bugs list <bugs@mit.edu>, Tom Cavin <tec@ai.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:37:06 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:43:15 -0400
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>

> access permissions are correct.  The local accound doesn't use
> anything in AFS space, but the cron job never seems to start.

I once had a problem with cron refusing to run cron jobs for users whose
home directories didn't exist; you might check what's listed in /etc/passwd
for this local account.  This would also account for you not being able to
start a cron job from your home directory, assuming you had logged out and
the machine had detached your home directory before attempting to run the
cron job.
-- 
Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>


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