https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1016141 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-management/error-cron-emails-root#comment-1093597 <p>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</p> Fri, 09 Nov 2001 21:30:29 +0000 netcommr comment 1093597 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-management/error-cron-emails-root#comment-1093590 <p><div class="codeblock"><code>[root@host /root]# cd /var/log/news<br />[root@host news]# ls -la<br />total 376<br />drw-r-----&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3 root&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; adm&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4096 Nov&nbsp; 4 04:02 ./<br />drwxr-xr-x&nbsp;&nbsp; 15 root&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; root&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4096 Nov&nbsp; 4 04:02 ../<br />drwxrwxr-x&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4096 Apr 12&nbsp; 2001 OLD/<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9188 Nov&nbsp; 9 08:01 errors<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 571 Nov&nbsp; 4 04:02 errors.1.gz<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 586 Oct 28 04:02 errors.2.gz<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 575 Oct 21 04:02 errors.3.gz<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 568 Oct 14 04:02 errors.4.gz<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 580 Oct&nbsp; 7 04:02 errors.5.gz<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 13379 Nov&nbsp; 9 08:01 info<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 931 Nov&nbsp; 4 04:02 info.1.gz<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 937 Oct 28 04:02 info.2.gz<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 928 Oct 21 04:02 info.3.gz<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 930 Oct 14 04:02 info.4.gz<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 935 Oct&nbsp; 7 04:02 info.5.gz<br />-rw-rw-r--&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 88124 Nov&nbsp; 9 08:01 news.crit<br />-rw-rw-r--&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1138 Nov&nbsp; 7 20:29 news.err<br />-rw-rw-r--&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 89608 Nov&nbsp; 9 08:01 news.notice<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 86 Nov&nbsp; 7 20:29 warnings<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 31 Oct 28 04:02 warnings.1.gz<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 31 Oct 21 04:02 warnings.2.gz<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 31 Oct 14 04:02 warnings.3.gz<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 31 Oct&nbsp; 7 04:02 warnings.4.gz<br />-rw-------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 31 Sep 30 04:02 warnings.5.gz</code></div>'Is the owner/group correct for this directory? Or should it be news/news like all the files in this directory?</p> Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:48:10 +0000 Mark Hensler comment 1093590 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-management/error-cron-emails-root#comment-1093576 <p>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.</p> Fri, 09 Nov 2001 11:15:47 +0000 mairving comment 1093576 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net