Re: cron "BAD FILE MODE"
From: Timothy Murphy (tim_at_birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie)
Date: 02/08/05
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To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:27:23 +0000
Matthew Miller wrote:
>> ====================================
>> Feb 6 16:06:51 martha crond[6266]: (*system*) BAD FILE MODE
>> (/etc/cron.d/fetchmail.cron)
>
> "File mode" is another word for permissions.
>
>> ====================================
>> in /var/log/cron when I add what seems
>> a perfectly good 1-line file
>> ====================================
>> 5,15,25,35,45,55 * * * * tim /usr/bin/fetchmail alfred
>> ====================================
>> as /etc/cron.d/fetchmail.cron and restart crond.
>
> If you do an ls -l on this file, what are the permissions? My guess is
> that you've left it world-writable, but it's possible that cron is being
> really picky and wants it to not group-writable either. In any case, do:
>
> chmod 0644 /etc/cron.d/fetchmail.cron
Thanks, that did indeed solve the problem.
I'm slightly baffled, as I had what I thought was exactly the same setup
on another identical machine and it seemed to work fine.
However, that is one of the many computer mysteries in my life ...
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