If you look at slocate.cron in a text editor you will notice that the
last '}' is on a line by itself. Go to the last '}' and do a backspace
to bring it back up to its proper line.
If that doesn't work you'll have to open slocate.cron with the hex
editor. If you are using the hex editor, replace the 0A that appears
just in front of the '}' with 20 (space). That should resolve the issue
for sure. When you are done you should only have the slocate.cron file.
If you have a slocate.cron~ file get rid of it.
Ken Wilson
First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is
irrelevant
(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of JK
> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 11:44 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] cron error
>
>
> Every time cron runs the below thing is what is sent to the
> root user. I
> logged on as root to install a new rpm I downloaded and it said I had
> mail. I checked mail and 8 messages were based on this error. Any clue
> how to fix the error?
>
> /usr/bin/news.daily: /var/lib/news/.news.daily: Permission denied
> /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron: line 6: syntax error: unexpected end of
> file
>
> Thanks in advance
> John
>
>
