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Re: runaway man processes and cron emails



Hi,
>>"M" == M C Vernon <mcv21@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes:

 M> shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
 M> directories

	Check permissions for /; /home; (essentially the whole tree
 for `pwd`), and  make sure there the permissions are 0755 for all
 directories (read and execute for group and other).

	Also, look into /etc/cron.daily/* to make sure that the dirs
 the scripts chdir into are also all readable.

	manoj
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