Re: Exim sending errors to root
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 06:02:07PM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get daily error from exim (and some other packages, but mainly exim):
>
> /bin/sh: root: command not found
> /etc/cron.daily/exim:
> failed to open database lock file /var/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile:
> Permission denied (euid=1000 egid=50)
> failed to open database lock file
> /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=1000
> egid=50)
> run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/exim exited with return code 1
>
> Any ideas on what might cause this? It looks a bit as if it couldn't run as
> root and was therefore failing to open some file. Are there any handy ways to
> debug cron jobs?
Probably root's crontab (the one set up by calling /usr/bin/crontab) is
causing this. Note that that crontab's format is different than the one
in /etc/crontab (or /etc/cron.d/*). (therefore cron tries to call a
'root' command, which doesn't exist).
Marcin
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