I think this is caused by the user not having read permission for the parent of the current directory. It looks like this is happening when running cron.daily. I don't know if when one runs cron jobs, whether the current directory is the home directory of the user (/root probably in this case), or whether it's the directory of the script which is being run (/etc/cron.daily in this case) (anybody know which is the case?). Anyway, in case of the former, you probably need to do 'cd / ; chmod +r', and in the case of the latter, 'cd /etc ; chmod +r'.
Gerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, Bill Hogan wrote: > >From root Mon Feb 12 06:44:09 1996 > Return-Path: <root> > Received: by bedlam.rahul.net > id m0tlzS6-0003mCC > (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Mon, 12 Feb 96 06:42 PST > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 06:42 PST > From: root (Cron Daemon) > To: root > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts /etc/cron.daily > X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> > X-Cron-Env: > <PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin> > X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> > X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> > Status: RO > > shell-init: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent > directories > shell-init: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent > directories > job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access > parent directories > job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access > parent directories > job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access > parent directories > job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access > parent directories > job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access > parent directories > job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access > parent directories > job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access > parent directories > cd_links: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent > directories > >
