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Re: RH 4.2 cron.daily question



pretty simple - PERMISSIONS
probably your /root directory which is owned by root.root has permission
of 700 and therefor user 'nobody' cannot access it. 

On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Alexander Indenbaum wrote:

> 
> I have a couple of plain vanilla RH 4.2 systems
> Once a day I get following message:
> 
> Subject: Cron <root@wizard> /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> 
> shell-init: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent directories
> job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent directories
> 
> I checked all what can cause it: 
> I upgraded bash.
> I played with SHELL variable in /etc/crontab
> and many more.
> 
> I do not get such emails regarding no other cron.* 
> 
> What can cause it?
> 
>   Alexander Indenbaum
>   baum@actcom.co.il
> 
> 

--Roman Shterenzon
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