Re: Cron Problem for squidGuard - LTSP 4.0.2 (FC3)

[Eric Harrison <eharrison@mail.mesd.k12.or.us>]

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Dan Bentson-Royal wrote:
> I seem to be having trouble running a daily cron job. This seems to be
> the only job that has trouble - nothing else has the "BAD FILE MODE"
> comment.
>
> I googled the problem and found a suggestion that BAD FILE MODE probably
> means permissions trouble - but when I checked, it all looks fine. I'm
> looking for suggestions on how to proceed.
>
> Here is the error message from my cron log:
>      [root@localhost ~]# more /var/log/cron | grep squidGuard
>      Apr 18 17:11:31 localhost crond[2125]: (*system*) BAD FILE MODE
>         (/etc/cron.d/squidGuard)
>      Apr 19 11:11:11 localhost crond[2288]: (*system*) BAD FILE MODE
> (/etc/cron.d/squidGuard)
>      Apr 19 11:17:39 localhost crond[2371]: (*system*) BAD FILE MODE
> (/etc/cron.d/squidGuard)
>      Apr 19 13:29:07 localhost crond[2190]: (*system*) BAD FILE MODE
> (/etc/cron.d/squidGuard)
>      [root@localhost ~]# ls -l /etc/cron.daily/
>      total 92
>      -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  418 Nov 19 12:21 00-makewhatis.cron
>      -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  135 Aug 18  2004 00webalizer
>      -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  276 Sep 28  2004 0anacron
>      -rw-r--r--  1 root root  797 Oct 19  2004 certwatch
>      -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  180 Oct 19  2004 logrotate
>      -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 2133 Nov 23 07:29 prelink
>      -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  104 Nov  1 18:54 rpm
>      -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   82 Oct 20  2004 slocate.cron
>      -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   56 Apr 16 20:00 squidGuard
>      -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  286 Aug 13  2004 tmpwatch
>      -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  136 Feb 21 07:38 yum.cron
>      [root@localhost ~]#
> I am running LTSP 4.2.0 - FC3
>
> Any suggestions as to where the problem lies?
>


I recently spotted this problem as well.

You can either update or run this command to fix it:

	chmod a-x /etc/cron.d/squidGuard

-Eric

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