Cron Daemon problem...

Ok i have been getting these email's regularly for a while now. Can someone tell me what they mean? And how do i fix them. I am running mandrake 8.0.



Thanks for any advice you can give.

-Mr.K

well I can tell you what it means anyways.. Those commands (chmod, touch,etc) are being executed on the listed files, but are failing because whatever user/script/whatever does not have the correct permissions to modify those files.

as to what is causing it? i dunno... check your logs for the same time see what is running at the time.

Well, i get one every hour. (1:01, 2:01, etc..) I'll look at the logs when i get back in.

-Mr.K

What is really weird is that there is no such file as nntpsend.log. Would creating a blank file fix this? I guess i'll try it. I'll let you know. lol (if anyone cares)

-Mr.K

look in the dir /var/spool/cron/crontabs/

look through the files in there for the offending commands and either fix them or disable them. if you have trouble reading the files post them here and i'll take a look.

There is nothing in the /var/spool/cron/ dir. I did find somehting in the /etc/cron.hourly dir. There was a file called inn-cron-nntpsend. I looked at it and it had this:



I just commented the command out, and i no longer get the email.

-Mr.K

well there ya go.. I misled ya about where to find the files, not used to mandrake (i use Slackware). but same idea. Just so you know what you did, you disabled the sending of usenet articles every hour. But i'm guessing that you were not useing that anyways since it was never setup to begin with.