[H-GEN] I habe slight problem

[Craig Eldershaw]

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OK, in case it wasn't obvious (appologies if it is), then cron is just
mailing you the output of the program.  The problem is nothing to do
with cron (unless cron is for some reason running the job as the wrong
user.

>/usr/bin/news.daily: /var/lib/news/.news.daily: Permission denied
>
>now news.daily is r_xr_x___
>.news.daily is rw_r__r__

Hmmm... is /usr/bin/news.daily actually a binary ?  Or a script ?  If
the latter, then look through it to see what it's trying to do with
/var/lib/news/.news.daily .  Also check ther permissions on the
directory /var/lib/news - that would be relevant if it were trying to
delet the file.  if /u/b/n.d is actually a binary, then try running it
manually with strace to find out what's it's trying to do.

I have difficulty believing that this is kernel related.

C.

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