Error: Cron emails root
I got postfix working on my box yesterday.. And I noticed this:
From nobody Thu Nov 8 22:01:00 2001
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Received: by host.maxalbert.com (Postfix, from userid 0)
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From: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" class="bb-email">[email protected]</a> (Cron Daemon)
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Subject: Cron <root@host> run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 22:01:00 -0800 (PST)
touch: /var/log/news/nntpsend.log: Permission denied
chmod: /var/log/news/nntpsend.log: Permission denied
/usr/bin/nntpsend: /var/log/news/nntpsend.log: Permission deniedWhat are those errors? And how can I fix them?
Is it normal for Cron to email root like this?
Mark Hensler
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mairving posted this at 11:15 — 9th November 2001.
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I would say just off the top of my head that you should check the permissions of the directory. It sounds like the user, news, is trying to write to that directory but doesn't have permission.
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Mark Hensler posted this at 16:48 — 9th November 2001.
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[root@host /root]# cd /var/log/news[root@host news]# ls -la
total 376
drw-r----- 3 root adm 4096 Nov 4 04:02 ./
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Nov 4 04:02 ../
drwxrwxr-x 2 news news 4096 Apr 12 2001 OLD/
-rw------- 1 news news 9188 Nov 9 08:01 errors
-rw------- 1 news news 571 Nov 4 04:02 errors.1.gz
-rw------- 1 news news 586 Oct 28 04:02 errors.2.gz
-rw------- 1 news news 575 Oct 21 04:02 errors.3.gz
-rw------- 1 news news 568 Oct 14 04:02 errors.4.gz
-rw------- 1 news news 580 Oct 7 04:02 errors.5.gz
-rw------- 1 news news 13379 Nov 9 08:01 info
-rw------- 1 news news 931 Nov 4 04:02 info.1.gz
-rw------- 1 news news 937 Oct 28 04:02 info.2.gz
-rw------- 1 news news 928 Oct 21 04:02 info.3.gz
-rw------- 1 news news 930 Oct 14 04:02 info.4.gz
-rw------- 1 news news 935 Oct 7 04:02 info.5.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 88124 Nov 9 08:01 news.crit
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 1138 Nov 7 20:29 news.err
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 89608 Nov 9 08:01 news.notice
-rw------- 1 news news 86 Nov 7 20:29 warnings
-rw------- 1 news news 31 Oct 28 04:02 warnings.1.gz
-rw------- 1 news news 31 Oct 21 04:02 warnings.2.gz
-rw------- 1 news news 31 Oct 14 04:02 warnings.3.gz
-rw------- 1 news news 31 Oct 7 04:02 warnings.4.gz
-rw------- 1 news news 31 Sep 30 04:02 warnings.5.gz
Mark Hensler
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netcommr posted this at 21:30 — 9th November 2001.
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you can change the cron job to run as 'root', or change the 'group' of that directory to the 'user' the cron job is running as and chmod (664) to allow writing by group, or change the 'owner' of that directory to the 'user' the cron job is running as
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