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Hi!

Sorry for slightly OT, but I need some help after I did not found a error. On my debian amd64 system the crond doesn't work any more. For all entries in the crontab, it writes "permission denied" into syslog. And I do not know why - any hint is appreciated.

# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file. # This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do. # SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # # m h dom mon dow user command 17 * * * * root run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly 28 5 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily 47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly 52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly

22 * * * * root echo echo >>/tmp/test2.txt

ls -l /etc/ |grep cron - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 395 2008-03-10 02:14 anacrontab drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-11-24 17:14 cron.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-11-24 17:14 cron.daily drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-11-24 17:14 cron.hourly drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-11-24 17:14 cron.monthly - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 653 2008-11-24 17:20 crontab drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-11-24 17:14 cron.weekly - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93 2008-10-27 15:15 cvs-cron.conf

cat /var/log/syslog Nov 24 17:22:01 tetris CRON[14541]: Permission denied Nov 24 17:22:01 tetris CRON[14540]: Permission denied Nov 24 17:22:01 tetris CRON[14542]: Permission denied Nov 24 17:25:01 tetris CRON[15176]: Permission denied Nov 24 17:25:01 tetris CRON[15175]: Permission denied

ps aux f |grep cron root 15472 0.0 0.0 5856 764 pts/9 S+ 17:27 0:00 | | _ grep cron root 13780 0.0 0.0 20528 1056 ? Ss 17:14 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron -L 2

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