On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:22:26PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > ==================================== > Feb 6 16:06:51 martha crond[6266]: (*system*) BAD FILE MODE > (/etc/cron.d/fetchmail.cron) "File mode" is another word for permissions. > ==================================== > in /var/log/cron when I add what seems > a perfectly good 1-line file > ==================================== > 5,15,25,35,45,55 * * * * tim /usr/bin/fetchmail alfred > ==================================== > as /etc/cron.d/fetchmail.cron and restart crond. If you do an ls -l on this file, what are the permissions? My guess is that you've left it world-writable, but it's possible that cron is being really picky and wants it to not group-writable either. In any case, do: chmod 0644 /etc/cron.d/fetchmail.cron and you should be all set. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> --> Fedora Users & Developers Conference, hosted by Boston University <-- February 18th, 2005 <http://fedoraproject.org/fudcon/>
