From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 12:27:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.mailix.net (smtp.mailix.net [216.148.213.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC22337B429 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:27:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [216.164.225.145] (helo=fritz) by smtp.mailix.net with asmtp (Exim 4.01) id 172GoB-0007NN-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:27:35 -0700 Message-ID: <00af01c1efcd$32f78160$0301a8c0@uminafamily.com> From: "Christopher J. Umina" To: Subject: Cron can't exec /bin/sh Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:28:33 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hihi, Why can't cron exec /bin/sh? I got this e-mail as root..: cron: execl: couldn't exec `/bin/sh': Permission denied This is my crontab file: 0 0 * * 0 cvsup supfile This is my supfile: *default tag=. *default host=cvsup.freebsd.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress ports-all Anybody see a problem? - Christopher J. Umina To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message