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Re: Cron problem/Documentation and Setup


At 11:13 PM 8/18/2004, you wrote:
>Larry Hall wrote:
>
>>At 10:44 PM 8/18/2004, you wrote:
>>
>>>So is P or /home off limits when it comes to cron? Why did this work at my last company? I think it's probably due to the "public" share point versus "non-public" share point (which I never totally understood before) and I'm fearing that I will not be able to convince the powers that be to change it! :-(
>>
>>Bingo!
>>
>>You can always resort to running cron as you instead of 'SYSTEM'. As long as you're the only user that needs to run under 'cron', that should work without changing the permissions of your network shares.
>
>I'd hate to have to resort to that!
>
>This doesn't explain why it worked at my last company and why I could have sworn it used to work here up until about a week ago.



Well, if you can check the access permissions on the share in question, 
you should be able to determine whether this is an issue or not.



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