Hi all: I think I fixed this problem. Would someone please let me know if I have made some more problems with the fix.
I regularly get a bunch of messages from cron: 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 cd_links: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent directories standard I added a line in the file /etc/cron.daily/smail that echo the strings "smail" and "end smail" to ascertain that these are indeed coming from the smail job. The smail file in /etc/cron.daily does an su mail to do its task, an ls -ld /var/spool/mail says root owns that file. I chown'ed that to mail ownership, and things seem to work ok. Am I going to see trouble down the road? Is there a more desirable fix? ---David
