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Re: cron error message



zdrysdal@diagnostic.co.nz writes:

> Hi
> 
> I keep on getting this message and i am not too sure why that is :
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/smail:
> /usr/lib/smail/checkerr: /dev/null: Permission denied
> 
> Any thoughts??

What are your permissions on /dev/null? Should be:

$ vdir /dev/null
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     root       1,   3 Jul 20  1998 /dev/null


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